#LegalOfficerProblemsDon't worry. Your ground job will make you feel all sorts of emotions before flying, so it's just tough, realistic training.
#LegalOfficerProblemsDon't worry. Your ground job will make you feel all sorts of emotions before flying, so it's just tough, realistic training.
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Hey, LegalO is a coveted billet and a highly desirable AQD. Tell all your friends!
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For anyone currently in primary, or waiting to start, have you heard anything about this new Project Avenger syllabus? If it utilizes the VR sims, I really hope they made some drastic changes, because those things were pretty awful last year.
The VR "sims" suck. Don't bother using them. A much better use of your time is learning the checklists and hollywood in the static trainers.
They fly a lot different from the actual airplane or the real sims, and the FMS in the VR sim doesn't actually work so you really can't even work on instrument stuff.
in all fairness though, they can be useful for getting the visuals for course rules etc. but that's really about it for the most part. I think the value and utility of these in their present existence is vastly overestimated by TPTB.
We're all laser-focused on building new-age, game-changing training equipment for students, but here's my gripe about the MH-60R community that won't be fixed by VR (or any new tech, since we aren't utilizing the great tech we have now).
I have been in the community since 2015 and I have never, ever been shown how to perform a particular skill by someone who is already competent at the skill (except for the time I sandbagged a SWTI's ASW TACEVAL by chance, which happened a year ago). For all the incredibly competent minds at NAWDC and the Weapons Schools, nobody has leveraged the incredible power of the recording software in our TOFTs to pass that ability on.
Solution: Create training videos that students can watch so that they can learn what comms should sound like, how SCAR/ASW/weapons release should be conducted, etc.
Throw all the studs you want into whatever VR scenarios you can create, but they'll still just be a shitty student performing shittily based on their best guess at what the pubs/PowerPoints/classroom settings were describing is the correct way to do things. Alternatively, let that student watch a video on the training LAN of a couple Level 5s expanding a sonobuoy pattern and I'll bet they'll actually figure it out.
I hope the other communities are different. I'm told jet studs don't even brief until they've watched jet pilots brief a thousand times so that they know how to conduct themselves during a brief. There is nothing like that in the MH-60R community AT. PERIOD. ALL.
Boom! This is such a fantastic idea it's easy to ignore. But this should totally be a thing. There are a lot of things I've been a bit confused about but then watched a YouTube video and said, "oh! That's how you do it!"We're all laser-focused on building new-age, game-changing training equipment for students, but here's my gripe about the MH-60R community that won't be fixed by VR (or any new tech, since we aren't utilizing the great tech we have now).
I have been in the community since 2015 and I have never, ever been shown how to perform a particular skill by someone who is already competent at the skill (except for the time I sandbagged a SWTI's ASW TACEVAL by chance, which happened a year ago). For all the incredibly competent minds at NAWDC and the Weapons Schools, nobody has leveraged the incredible power of the recording software in our TOFTs to pass that ability on.
Solution: Create training videos that students can watch so that they can learn what comms should sound like, how SCAR/ASW/weapons release should be conducted, etc.
Throw all the studs you want into whatever VR scenarios you can create, but they'll still just be a shitty student performing shittily based on their best guess at what the pubs/PowerPoints/classroom settings were describing is the correct way to do things. Alternatively, let that student watch a video on the training LAN of a couple Level 5s expanding a sonobuoy pattern and I'll bet they'll actually figure it out.
I hope the other communities are different. I'm told jet studs don't even brief until they've watched jet pilots brief a thousand times so that they know how to conduct themselves during a brief. There is nothing like that in the MH-60R community AT. PERIOD. ALL.
Naval flight training used to have a lot of informative and useful training videos with a film reel on an old fashioned movie projector. A lot of those got transferred to VHS tapes or updated and put on VHS. You'd sign out a copy and watch it in one of the cubicles with a VCR, little TV, and headphones. Some of that stuff made it onto digital, but a lot of the digital age training turned into what we now know as CBTs, self-paced learning where you click on the next slide and the one after that, with little 30 second vignettes but mostly cut-and-paste text from one of the pubs.
About six or seven years ago some of the Whiting IPs put together some really great primary formation videos. Those are on YouTube and I'm pretty sure they're still an officially sanctioned "you really should watch this" part of the syllabus. They're well produced too, just the right amount of narration, little text boxes and arrows to emphasize visual checkpoints and what to look for or what step of the procedure the video is doing. It's a shame that these stand out as the exception rather than the rule.