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Rg9

Registered User
pilot
The Conclusion... (thought I'd start a new thread from this one: What to fly... Advice?)

I got P-3's!

As it turns out, everyone who put down tailhook this selection and got it actually got E-2/C-2 except for one guy down in Corpus (who's NSS was better than mine). For some reason (Skipper said it was something about how TIMS won't accept "tailhook"... I didn't really understand it, nor did he), they split up the two this time around, and will apparently continue to do so until the next fiscal year. Unfortunately, you don't get to tell them which choice you'd like, however.

So that being said, had I put down tailhook, I would have gotten E-2/C-2, which wouldn't have been bad, but I think I'd rather have P-3's. If I go to the boat, I'd like to carry weapons.

Part of me wonders, "what would it be like to have flown helos?" But I think that's just because I was so undecided going in.

Anyone have any motivating videos of P-3's? Any advice? Thanks.
 
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llnick2001

it’s just malfeasance for malfeasance’s sake
pilot
Rg9 said:
Part of me wonders, "what would it be like to have flown helos?"
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Like a monkey humpin a football at first if you're at all like me (though with your NSS you probably aren't). Congrats on your first choice.
 
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MasterBates

Well-Known Member
Even "good" pilots are like monkeys fvcking footballs learning to hover.

Hell, even I looked bad on my 1st flight learning to fly helos... Thank god for retired W-5's with balls of solid steel. He just let me flail around and try to figure it out while he talked me through it.

Being able to fly a Bell 204 at 14 years old was priceless though. Made getting my learners permit seem anti-climatic when I turned 16.
 
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port_tack

Registered User
Rg9 said:
As it turns out, everyone who put down tailhook this selection and got it actually got E-2/C-2 except for one guy down in Corpus (who's NSS was better than mine). For some reason (Skipper said it was something about how TIMS won't accept "tailhook"... I didn't really understand it, nor did he), they split up the two this time around, and will apparently continue to do so until the next fiscal year. Unfortunately, you don't get to tell them which choice you'd like, however.
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Umm, apparently I am that guy. They told me I'm going to Meridian. They left me with the impression that I'll go to Meridian and it'll be decided at the end of Phase I there that I'll select either E-2/C-2 or jets. I didn't hear anything about them somehow splitting it up between E-2/C-2 and jets. It seems odd and I must confess to being somewhat dubious, but this Tailhook thing is so fouled up right now that I'm inclined to believe almost anything.

There were two Marines down here who got "Tailhook" too (one going to Kingsville, the other to Meridian, I believe).
 
FLYTPAY

FLYTPAY

Pro-Rec Fighter Pilot
pilot
None
Jets or E2/C2?

port_tack said:
Umm, apparently I am that guy. They told me I'm going to Meridian. They left me with the impression that I'll go to Meridian and it'll be decided at the end of Phase I there that I'll select either E-2/C-2 or jets. I didn't hear anything about them somehow splitting it up between E-2/C-2 and jets. It seems odd and I must confess to being somewhat dubious, but this Tailhook thing is so fouled up right now that I'm inclined to believe almost anything.

There were two Marines down here who got "Tailhook" too (one going to Kingsville, the other to Meridian, I believe).
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If you want to avoid the new tailhook selection after phase I. Start advanced ASAP. CNATRA doesnt have their ducks in a row yet to figure this thing out. Welcome to beautiful Meridian.
 
goldielocks

goldielocks

Member
P-3 Motivational Video...

Rg9 said:
Anyone have any motivating videos of P-3's? Any advice? Thanks.
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Ask and you shall recieve....


Not the full version...hilarious none the less...find an NAS Whidbey VAQ or VP guy, I'm sure they'll have the full version saved to the hard drive of their squadron computer...Paging Brett?
 
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Rg9

Registered User
pilot
port_tack said:
Umm, apparently I am that guy...
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You mind me asking your NSS? The fact that I probably would have gotten E-2/C-2 (not to hit on that community, it's just not what I desire) had I put down tailhook makes the whole P-3 thing much more appealing to me.

That's strange they told you you could get either, though. The guys up here who got E-2/C-2 are getting orders to Corpus to do prop training.

Congrats on your selection.
 
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port_tack

Registered User
Rg9 said:
You mind me asking your NSS?
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That's strange they told you you could get either, though. The guys up here who got E-2/C-2 are getting orders to Corpus to do prop training.
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They didn't say it so much as they implied it. My current theory is that nobody knows what they're supposed to be doing. There seems to be a communication breakdown or something between CNATRA, the Wings, and the various squadrons. I know people who selected tailhook only to show up in K'rock and get told that they got full-blown jets. I'm curious to see what they tell me when I get to Meridian.

Congrats on your selection.
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Thanks. I've been smiling all day.
 
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Rg9

Registered User
pilot
Well, I don't think if these guys get orders to Corpus that they'll get jets. The whole thing is kind of weird right now.
 
ATLien

ATLien

Can I talk to you, Michael?
pilot
port_tack said:
I know people who selected tailhook only to show up in K'rock and get told that they got full-blown jets. I'm curious to see what they tell me when I get to Meridian.
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That's what they will tell you in Meridian too. All the books they issue (including the green book) is for strike. However, Phase 1 is about 5 months and anything can change two or three times before then.
 
Afterburner76

Afterburner76

Life is Gouda
pilot
goldielocks said:
Ask and you shall recieve....


Not the full version...hilarious none the less...find an NAS Whidbey VAQ or VP guy, I'm sure they'll have the full version saved to the hard drive of their squadron computer...Paging Brett?
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He said "MOTIVATING" P-3 vids...

not sure what Prop Gun actually motivates you to do... other than grab stacks of box lunches... ;)
 
zippy

zippy

Freedom!
pilot
Contributor
Anyone have the WTU version of Prop Gun? Appearently its floating around out there somewhere...
 
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