If you get selected for E-2s during flight school, how do they then determine who flies the COD and who flies the Hawkeye? I assume the mission sets are different enough that pilots don't fly both interchangeably.
As of recently COD pilots fly V-22’s, so that solves the issue.
They stopped selecting for C-2s at some point in 2022, or maybe even 2021. VAW-120 stopped flying them late last year IIRC. The current T-45 syllabus is a unified one for jets and E-2s, and nowhere in it are C-2s mentioned.
Oh yeah... I was squadron MO, so I was up on the flight deck moments after it happened. We, along with 3 other squadrons, had to replace the outer wing section on one of our jets. A month later, I flew that jet’s Pro-B- the only time I ever got to fly slick wing off the Boat. The flyby was awesome.
On a night launch, I was a turning spare. The skipper’s plane was next to mine, and as it pulled out of the hummer hole the wind blew the plane so it slid until his left folded wing hit my right prop. I sawed almost all the way through the wing. They flew a new one out to Sigonella and slung it below a helo, we were back in business in days.
First off, I want to congratulate you on finishing Primary! That's no small feat, enjoy the downtime, even if only for a moment!
When I was in VT-27 the contact NATOPS brief had to be verbatim and the forms brief had to be pretty close.
I guess it was supposed to be, looking back I'm pretty sure I memorized it then broke it down into the important parts. This is wild to me, seeing as in the fleet it's very different. I saw someone already commented on the V-22 side of things and I agree with them completely. Same for our side of the house.
Thank you!
VT2 we also had to have the NATOPS brief memorized, it was IP dependent (again the true theme of Primary) on if they would actually pay attention to anything you were saying or if you could just hit the highlights. But by instruments, most IPs told me to just give a condensed NATOPS brief.
