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Check the Master Curriculum Guide. The formula should be in there. If you look at the very first post in this thread, you'll see the formula as of 2007. Notice no mention of academics. The 10% number was thrown around back then, too. Some time long long ago academics wase included in the...

Fiscal Year has nothing to do with selection. Pilot production is a continuous process and is not constrained by any kind of artificial date. The advanced squadrons need a continuous student input. If an advanced pipeline has received all the students they need for a FY, they will still need...

There are private HEMS operators in MD. They fly primarily interhospital transfer. They do pick up the occasional scene medevac when a MD State Police helicopter is not available or too far away. Perhaps a private company could provide the service more cheaply. But the MD system provides...

http://www.hometownannapolis.com/news/top/2010/10/21-29/State-to-buy-6-medevac-helicopters.html?ne=1

The NTSB has released the factual reports on this mishap. http://www.ntsb.gov/Dockets/Aviation/MIA08MA203/default.htm The final report with probable cause won't come out for some time.

You should keep in mind, as well, that his training track (OCS, Flight School, FRS) is 2-4+ years and will involve 3-5 moves, depending on too many factors to predict.

I never met a helo pilot who says he wishes he would have gone jets. Reach down deep and think of what platform you think you will enjoy the most. And when you get there, work your ass off and thank God that you are getting paid to fly because there are millions who wish they could have your...

Week's Realty in Pace did a prety good job for me.

Wings offers miniture models, which I found more apealing than the regular size model. With it on my desktop I have room to work. Not as much detail as the larger model, but still very nice.

Yep. As a Pilot in the Maryland State Police Aviation Command, you will be flying the Eurocopter AS365N Dauphin. The minimum requirements for employment with the Command as a Helicopter Pilot are as follows: FAA Commercial and Instrument Rating in Helicopters Minimum of 2,000 rotor wing...

No. It's a mix. Maybe 20%-25% retired military. 20%-25% retired troopers. So around half have a retirement check of some sort to augment the pay. Plus there are a few reservists. Some try to pick up overtime. Others have working spouses. And most live as far from the DC/Baltimore area...

There will always be people who complete advanced (satisfactorily complete every event) with an NSS below 35. In fact, about 6% who successfully complete will have an NSS below 35. And someone will have an NSS even below 20, although that would be very rare (somewhere on the order of .1%)...

A little history - When CNATRA went to MPTS, there was a difficult transition. It was hard for IPs and commands to forget the "old" rules - pre-MPTS (TA Manual) and accept the MPTS rules. Under the "old" rules, there was a minimum 35 NSS to select/wing. Under MPTS, this rule was dropped...

As stated too many times to count, timing is everything. BUT, time of the year is irrelevant.

I don't know why you think this new formula will create backstabbing. The NSS methodology, comparing students to their squadron average, has been around for decades. I never saw backstabbing going on and never heard of backstabbing going on.

Sorry. That's 2500 hours. I corrected it in my post.

Don't get the aviation degree and/or flight time if you are doing it just to be a military pilot. It isn't required. To be a Navy, Marine, Coast Guard or Air Force pilot, you need to be a commissioned officer. To be a commissioned officer (besides Warrant), you need a college degree. Get a...

Yes, QOL is a big factor when it comes to many of the helo jobs out there. I think EMS is a great gig. I am currently flying for the Maryland State Police. I love the hours. I am home every night or every day. I haven't used any vacation hours, yet I have had a number or 10 day stretches...

I thought I would throw this out there, just so you know. It is rare for someone to put down helos as their first chioce of pipeline and not get helos. Of course, there are no guarantees. Sometimes up is down and in is out in the universe, and that's when a first choice of helos is not met.

I've never seen a post on Airwarriors that said if you work hard the Navy will give you what you want. Everyone says if you work hard you have a better chance of getting what you want, but the Navy will always consider its needs first.

No... except students in IFS. The Navy has its own annual flight physical. Some of the Navy flight surgeons are FAA medical examiners and may do the paperwork for you if you want an FAA medical certificate so you can fly in the civilian world. But you don't need it as a Naval Aviator.

Sometimes, yes. Some weeks it changes more than every Wednesday. Not really the needs of the fleet so much, but what each advanced pipeline needs and where they are at any given time is constantly being monitored and tweeked. The tweeks can end up being small or large. Plus, on those...

Just so you know, quality spread is not a factor in selection. CO input is a factor pretty much only if he says a selector is NOT good for a particular pipeline. While there are lots of stories of how the #1 guy didn't get his choice, it actually doesn't happen that often. What the #1 guy...

If the worst should happen and during the flight the examiner says you failed, you will be given the choice of continuing or calling it quits. I recommend continuing. As said before, it is a learning experience. Take the opportunity and learn from the expert. Also, you will not need to...

There is no super secret equation. The formula in the curriculum guide is the formula. Basically, selection is done like this. Each week selectors are stacked by NSS. Take the top student, look at his first choice. Is there an available seat? Yes? He gets his first choice. No? Look at...

PAS is NSS. NSS is PAS.

Think of the ride the escorts are getting!

SDNalgene has posted the best explanation on the impact of accelerated training yet. Here is what the analysis showed. Take a completer's grades and remove a couple random flights as though he had been accelerated. Then compare full syllabus NSS with accelerated NSS. On average, the full...

I think Aerodynamics for Naval Aviators has WAY too much math, and I'm an engineer. My personal favorite is The Illustrated Guide to Aerodynamics by H. C. "Skip" Smith.

There are 4 locations in the DC/Baltimore area that do IFS. BWI, Freeway, Tipton, and Bay Bridge. I don't think anyone but academy folks can go through IFS there.

Basically, standardization. There was a large variation in training provided between all the CFIs out there. To control the quality of training the Navy decided to limit where the training could be done. The reason a PPL from anywhere is OK is because to get a PPL you have to complete a...

For those commenting on NSS, I recommend reading the thread on NSS facts because there have been a number of mistatements here. No points are added to anybody's NSS. Average NSS at Vance and TW-4 and TW-5 is a 50. If the average student at Vance gets ten 5's on each flight and the average...

Anybody can zoom and boom. Anybody can yank and bank. But if you can't hover, you're queer. I'd rather have my sister in a whore house than my brother in an F-18. I think that pretty much digs up fire ant nest into a hornets nest while sitting on it.

Kenny Lingus

Not true. Historically, they are the same. At any given time, one location may actually get students done faster, but there is no predicting which location that will be when you are going through.

Good luck with that. There aren't too many places, if any, with both Coast Guard and Navy helo within a reasonable commute.

For what it's worth, the only grades that are used for pipeline selection are Primary flight grades.

The only thing that matters is how you stack up against those you are selecting with and what slots are available. In other words, the only thing that matters is your NSS. That being said, if you have an NSS qualifying you for jets and there are jet seats, BUT your CO says, "Do not select for...

You should consider that the amount of time you will spend at API should dwarf the time you spend at Whiting. So that commute to P'cola may not be as much of a factor as you are thinking.

IFS has always been taken seriously by the Navy/USMC. The Navy/USMC is not looking for a particular drop out rate in any portion of flight training, including IFS. The Navy makes some predictions on what the attrition rate will be and then brings in enough students so that, when all the...

I remember a young JO (not me) carrying an entire det's medical and dental records across the brow in a box. The box got caught on a cable and everything went into the water. A few records were salvaged, but most of the det went through a complete round of immunizations. I was glad I had kept...

Yeah, it isn't obvious and it took a few mistakes early on before the squadrons/TWs got it consistently right, but the way the course map would look is something like this: C4204 unsat/incomplete for RRU C4204 unsat/complete after IPC(R)/FPC(R) If an incomplete event is unsat, then...

I wish the Ops Directed IPC and Command Directed FPC were used more often. Even before all sorts of unsats. It is the tool everyone complains we don't have, but its right there in the box. As for RRU, I don't like it for two reasons. 1. A student goes straight to the IPC/FPC process, which...

It is possible today to get on the road to attrition at C4002 (FAM-2) today. Its called a Command Directed FPC. FAM-2 "downs" were very rare. Those who did get them were often returned to the program after the PRB process. To be attrited at that point, the student had to be really bad...

MPTS B and MPTS C are the same as far as what an "unsat" is and how many are required to put a student on the road to attrition. It isn't 3 "unsats" that leads to a TRB and visit to see the Commodore. It takes 3 consecutive "unsats" (or an "unsat" on a xx90 event) that leads to the IPC/FPC...

MPTS does not make it easier to do poorly and get through. MPTS is not easier than the old system. It is just different. The reason there are training jackets with mutiple unsats is because an unsat is NOT a down. Downs don't exist any more. MPTS is just as efficient at removing a student...

Overall attrition is around 15%-20%, that's API through Advanced. That number is a bit squishy since attrition tends to ebb and flow in each phase. But, if we took a cadre of 100 students about to start API, assumed the 100 students selected to Advaned at the current average annual Adv...

I think the point made for the F-18 analogy was that if you stay in the same community (HSM to HSM) it won't matter if you flew B's or R's. The H-3 to H-60 transition being a good historical data point.

No, it will make no difference for your career. There were plenty of Lamps MKI (SH-2F) who transitioned to Lamps MKIII (60B) when all the H-2 squadrons decommisioned. Plenty of them became 60B CO's.