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[nittany03]

There’s nothing foolproof about it. You still have to fly the airplane. You just do it in a different way.

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[Python]

Meh...........Magic Carpet will kill it.

Wrong. Do you have much experience with it?

 

[Hair Warrior]

Wrong. Do you have much experience with it?

jmquate: Yes?
Also jmquate:

 

[ChuckMK23]

As usual, you have no idea what you’re talking about.

Landing grades on the boat ~= ranking of JO's for fitrep performance. Is that no longer correlated?

 

[sickboy]

As a non-hooker looking at my own community, I'd say we don't have enough friendly competition when it comes to stick skills. Some dudes can't even taxi on center line, let alone put the wheels in the boxes on the CVN (even after wobbling around at 20 ft for 2 minutes). Disgraceful.

We had what we called the "bolter board" (which sounds similar) after one of the HACs landed so far off spot that he had to take off again and try again. Skipper announced that the next person to do that would be subject to pubic ridicule at every AOM. XO was on the board by the end of the week and stayed there for the rest of cruise.

 

[RobLyman]

We always tried for the ever elusive CENTERED light for free deck landings. Is that still a thing?

 

[RobLyman]

Landing grades on the boat ~= ranking of JO's for fitrep performance. Is that no longer correlated?

Don't feel bad. I was told the same thing back in the day. In fact, while doing my CCDG tour my Air Ops boss requested I put flight hours and landings as the first bullet on my FITREP input. When I tried to explain that no one really cared much in our community about that and that, "I AM on a CCDG staff right now. How much do you think I fly?" he didn't want to listen. Not until the COS got my FITREP did he send it back and tell me to take that $hit off and put it at the bottom, or leave it off all together.

 

[Jim123]

We always tried for the ever elusive CENTERED light for free deck landings. Is that still a thing?

Pretty sure it is...

What's fun is when the straightening cables don't work and you have to put the tiller bar on the tailwheel to straighten the aircraft with the track. (Or kick the tail out before landing and try to lineup the entire aircraft with the track and still touch down with a centered light...)

 

[sickboy]

We always tried for the ever elusive CENTERED light for free deck landings. Is that still a thing?

Yup, I've gotten that a few times. What's a lot harder is landing so you don't need to straighten.

 

[Python]

Landing grades on the boat ~= ranking of JO's for fitrep performance. Is that no longer correlated?

That is not correlated. I don't know if it ever was. The only thing similar that I heard of is maybe one of the FITREP bullets make a mention of being a "top ten ball flyer" or something to that effect. And that wasn't the bullet itself, just one part of one bullet. These are definitely not used for ranking JOs or DHs or anyone else.

 

[RotorBoy83]

That is not correlated. I don't know if it ever was. The only thing similar that I heard of is maybe one of the FITREP bullets make a mention of being a "top ten ball flyer" or something to that effect. And that wasn't the bullet itself, just one part of one bullet. These are definitely not used for ranking JOs or DHs or anyone else.

Wow, didn’t realize that. I always assumed the pointy nose guys’ deck landing grades were a big part of their JO ranking.

Can it at least hurt you?

 

[Python]

Wow, didn’t realize that. I always assumed the pointy nose guys’ deck landing grades were a big part of their JO ranking.

Can it at least hurt you?

You’d have to be a pretty far outlier for them to hurt you. If your performance is low enough you can expect a talking to from the squadron’s head Paddles or from Cag Paddles. If it still doesn’t improve you can expect remediation in the form of doing FRS CQ again and in the worst case it can end up in a FNAEB.

I cannot stress enough how uncommon that is. While that does happen once in a blue moon, we are talking about a pilot that is consistently struggling behind the boat and safety is in question.

Generally guys with lower GPAs are still safe and consistent; they’re just not eye watering with their landings. Being in that category is absolutely 100% fine. Just be safe and consistent and nobody will care, even if your GPA is in the lower percentiles.

Boat GPA is not used for FITREP rankings.

 

[jmcquate]

Wrong. Do you have much experience with it?

Just a throw away joking post. Apologies for taking this thread down another rabbit hole. I'll sit in the corner and color.

 

[ATIS]

Th

You’d have to be a pretty far outlier for them to hurt you. If your performance is low enough you can expect a talking to from the squadron’s head Paddles or from Cag Paddles. If it still doesn’t improve you can expect remediation in the form of doing FRS CQ again and in the worst case it can end up in a FNAEB.

I cannot stress enough how uncommon that is. While that does happen once in a blue moon, we are talking about a pilot that is consistently struggling behind the boat and safety is in question.

Generally guys with lower GPAs are still safe and consistent; they’re just not eye watering with their landings. Being in that category is absolutely 100% fine. Just be safe and consistent and nobody will care, even if your GPA is in the lower percentiles.

Boat GPA is not used for FITREP rankings.

They still have a min grade you need to get orders to CVW-5/Japan?

Did back in my day.

ATIS

 

[Python]

Th

They still have a min grade you need to get orders to CVW-5/Japan?

Did back in my day.

ATIS

For FRS CQ, there are unique requirements for PRI A guys. Those are guys that are going to CVW-5 or to a squadron on deployment.