Knowing more to the whole story here than was originally portrayed... JMO20 I'ts been over a month since you've selected and you're still complaining. Most people would realize that things aren't going to change and that you need to be happy with what you've selected. You've gotta give this I deserved jet stuff up because talking with a lot of your IP's very few of you in your flight did actually have the skill to get jets. Also, if your friends were just simply average, how come they were called out by their flight commander as the top two in the flight and asked to help everyone else out that was having problems?
And yes JMO20, they are out to get you.... Give it up.
I can second this post. I was at Vance a few classes ahead of JMO20. It is really bad to hear about a fellow stud doing badly...especially if said stud is from not only a different flight, but a different SQUADRON.
JMO20, that guy was YOU.
And as for the 70 and 77, I talked personally to the skipper of yer squadron and the XO of ours (as they were selecting the same week of my class) and they EARNED those grades. When I hear an IP use the words "best stud I've ever seen" I don't take that lightly.
As a Navy guy who went through Chair Force training, and now am in the Advanced Pipeline (FAM 4) I don't think T-6's gave me any advantage for
this airframe. I can't speak to the jets or helo's just the T-12. I NEVER had beta...which means I have NO idea what I am doing when I taxi...seriously, I feel like the special kid getting to be "pilot for a day" sometimes. I think we may have had really good instruments instruction, but I have never done:
a timed turn
an ASR
a partial panel approach
an in air EP (my IP used ICS failure for that check in the block)
...and I was primary complete with 3 whole PAR's (1 flight) and 2 AOA patterns.
Needless to say my learning curve here at Corpus has been steep.
JMO20 I told you at Vance to lose the attitude and not bitch about "being wronged" Hopefully you learn this by the time you hit the flightline. Remeber, this is a small Navy...once you get a reputation, it is hard to lose.
As to the IP's, every flight has a hammer and a santa. You don't fly every flight with the same IP, and yer grades are a representative of the subjective view of ALL of those pilots. That means the WHOLE flight (plus checkpilots, and the skipper for any 89 rides) have to be in on said conspiracy to screw you. Not likely. Those IP's were good people, they really worked hard to train us to a standard that would not embarrass THEM when we left Vance and went to advanced. (even the FAIP's)
I would gladly go back to Vance, I had a good time, the program was fair, and if you have a problem with your grades the time to say something is at the beginning/middle of primary, not the end.
You graduated with a 33, you are lucky to even
have a pilot slot and a plane waiting for you. Remember you are training here with a guy who got a 52 NSS and worked their ass off to fly the P-3, it was my first choice...and you are flying in a squadron with a guy who had a 58, wanted jets, and got P-3's. Please keep bitching about my airframe, it will get you far at VP-30 (especially with the FE's)
To the rest of you, sorry about rambling:icon_smil