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I have fond memories of spending hours in the War Room at TW-1 BSing with fellow studs and listening to sea stories from IPs. War Room debriefs on Friday afternoons sometimes went on until the kegs and fridge were empty. Lemoore O'Club seems like it's fun for patchings but on Fridays most...

Jack Edwards has a tower now? Cool. OP the wait time and location for Primary changes all the time. There's really no gauging it. At API I lived a few minutes from the gate, at Primary in NASWF I moved to Milton to a few minutes from the gate, and in Advanced I bumped that out to about 20...

I dug through the SOP one day, because if I'm gonna do something I at least want paper to back me up, only restriction I saw was no PAs for Fam solos...not explicitly denied for any other solo. I saw it as a confidence builder for being solo and handling a no shit PA (as well as some relatively...

Hello all, Thought I'd make a post to help anybody in or getting into I Jet/A Jet. It's a combination of things I noticed and advice I was given by a variety of individuals. This isn't Primary. You'll be challenged much more in every phase of flight and the standards are higher. Prepare...

Lemoore!

NA wings please, winged last year out of Meridian.

All I know is they went into a room to hash it out amongst themselves while we chilled somewhere else until they came out with differing levels of satisfaction or dissatisfaction on their face.

From commissioning to wings in jets for me was 3 years, 4 months and 14 days. Lotta factors at play there and none of them in my control. Take that as you will, OP.

T-45 hah flip switch turn knob "chicago center bobcat 56 level 12 thousand..." I don't even know but that's about right

Just ordered a nametag from TG. What's the gouge on good sewing spots around Lemoore these days?

I'll let you know this much. As a newly winged aviator awaiting training in the FRS, the day I winged was one of the best of my life. While going through the process of OCS to IFS/API to Primary to I-Jet/A-Strike, which were all challenging, I had this thought in my head that once I had my...

That's how I did it. I hadn't swam since I was a kid, asked a college swimmer buddy to show me the basics before I left, and practiced over the summer. Still got rolled day 1 because I never tried sidestroke and clearly didn't know how to do it. That was dumb. Ended up being a good experience...

3 posts in and this somewhat interesting and possibly relevant thread was completely derailed into 26 pages about whether or not one dudes' friend got a DUI.

An unforgettable soundtrack.

For the T-45 they're clear.

It sounds like NIFE is Primary prep school whereas IFS was more of a Primary screening program. I remember memorizing emergency landing and airborne engine start or something like that and that's it. Everything else was low stress, low skill putting around Mobile Bay at a couple thousand feet in...

It does nothing to disprove my point. MLK was killed because of the color of his skin. Skin color does not define you. Those two statements can exist simultaneously. I agree we are far from what MLK advocated for. I'd assert that things like CRT are the opposite of what MLK advocated. I think...

Over the past 60 years the Black community has been attacked by various forces. Marriage rates have bottomed out, divorce rates have ballooned, children born without a stable two parent household are more common, Black babies are more likely to be aborted than any other race, Black on Black...

Lack of healthy skepticism combined with too much naivete in the capacity of people to be evil (or wrong and too ashamed to admit it).

Yep you definitely can. File it as a DD-1801 just so you can check your stuff but whenever I called clearance for my clearance they were ready with it.

They do?

From an AJET stud perspective; I trained on paper in Primary and IJET. I made smartpacks with the little plastic sleeves in BIs and RIs because it was easier than flipping through pubs. After a while I was more comfortable with just rubberbanding the pages I needed in pubs and stopped making...

It's like cafeteria food. Some things like clam chowder and hamsters are always a pleasure though.

Plan on beating the PRT standards for the IST. Please don’t show up and then find yourself in H Class because you thought meeting the minimum while you were at home well fed and rested was good enough for the IST. Ask me how I know.

Thoughts on these articles and the NGAD concept? They state that the Navy wants to replace the Rhinos and Growlers in the 2030s with this 6th Gen Fighter to be accompanied by “little buddy” drones in the form of missile/bomb trucks. Of note, this is not a joint program with the USAF. The...

I'd disagree. The T-45C flys nicer than the T-6B because it's a Turbofan spitting out 5,527LBS of thrust instead of a Turboprop throwing a measley 1,100 SHP. Mo powah mo betta. In all seriousness I think the T-45C is a more fun aircraft to fly once you get the hang of it. Harder to fly well for...

So you’re saying the bean boys want quicker pilots (see: the various waivers that continue to shorten the time to train) but quicker pilots make worse pilots and it’s not worth cutting their training. Right?

We had a Hollywood script at Whiting. It was a good way for me, with no experience, to start practicing comms and checklists on the ground. However when something deviated from the script (like an interloper in the North MOA on CBDR with me at 10,000’ causing a TCAS alert) I had no idea what to...

Yea I think so man or at least consecutive weeks. After selection I didn’t class up for 7 months. I Jet took just over 9 months including Christmas leave. That being said even if I knew all this was coming I still wouldn’t have changed my mind!

Yea I take back what I said. I saw a picture of somebody I graduated Primary with (different squadrons same week) who went to Kingsville and he had wings on. I haven’t started Advanced yet.

I've got a feeling a "Covid passport" is going to be like a second ID in many places in the near future. Can you imagine forgetting your Cov-ID at home and getting turned away from the local brothel? How embarrassing.

It’s issued but you can’t wear it in classified spaces? Like a cockpit?

Did most people fly with nice watches on? It seems like many people I've met fly with either issued Garmins or cheap sports watches.

Maybe KRock is faster than here, but if you think training is only going to take a year I have a bridge to sell you.

When I went through primary people that flew the T-34 (IPs) told me the T-6 is harder mostly because it has mo powah.

Marines have the added time spender of TBS. I see some Marines here put on O-3 shortly before or after winging. Navy folks not so much, most O-3s are retreads from Helos or NFO transitions.

Do any of you gentlemen and ladies fly with the jackets on?

Mo problems

What I really meant was, most people in aviation probably signed up to be aviators. Not shooters, not FACs, etc regardless of what brief we were given when we signed the dotted line. Perhaps it’s not in the cards right now but “not flying” seems to be a consistent reason people don’t want to...

Is it possible that in trying to squeeze as much ROI with a more constrained military budget and an exploding national debt to consider, the federal government and DoD will try to prioritize what is of more importance because there's less dollars to spend? In other words and of more importance...

So of these myriad of problems what's likely to change for better or worse in the decade of the 2020s? I default to optimism, because pessimism is a quitter's attitude, but a healthy dose of realism is welcome.

I better review my point to points

Like many other VT-J students I bought an iPad after my IR Check. The first time flying an approach after a forms flight in bad weather I reached into my bag, felt the iPad, and then grabbed the paper pub I had trained on and flipped to the page I needed without a second thought and shoved it...

Honestly I don't know what's real and what's false information anymore. There's so much conflicting detail you'd think we were living in two different worlds with two different pandemics.

This thread direction reminds me of when I was hunting for the "E" Pistol Qual and Rifle Qual ribbons before starting flight school...funny how priorities shift

“Back in my day” is what I’m going to expect to hear a lot of in the coming years under “Covid mitigation”

Honestly bro if I can pass the swim qual then you can pass it. I basically learned how to swim at API. I just pushed myself during remedial swim with lots of freestyle and “rested” with breaststroke.

Hm. Well thank you for that insight Sir I never thought of it like that.

Well to be honest Sir I never thought of it like that. I thought high school did a good job of preparing me for college, as it should have as a college prep school. Most of the learning I do in flight school has little comparison in college with the exception of learning how to pull important...

Interesting. It's hard to perceive the big picture as a student because everything is new to me, but just how close to a Fleet aviator does the training command get us? Is the FRS just polish or is it just as intense with firehose learning as Intermediate and Advanced? For Jets, P8s, and Helos...