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15 SEP2025 SNA/SNFO BOARD

MowinThaAir said:
Anyone else curious where we’re all from? Not sure if meeting each other before OCS (hopefully) is a thing, but I’m in the northern Virginia/DC area
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Williamsburg, VA about an hour east from beautiful Virginia Beach and NAS oceana. Grew up there which is where the passion all started

Side note I wasn’t able to get everything done in time for this board but had my commissioning physical done Wednesday where the doc recommended me for waiver so hoping to be moving forward with ISEL soon 🤙🏼

Hoping yall get your results soon
 
Background bear said:
Williamsburg, VA about an hour east from beautiful Virginia Beach and NAS oceana. Grew up there which is where the passion all started

Side note I wasn’t able to get everything done in time for this board but had my commissioning physical done Wednesday where the doc recommended me for waiver so hoping to be moving forward with ISEL soon 🤙🏼

Hoping yall get your results soon
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Living in central Florida now, but I was born and raised around Suffolk, VA.

Good luck moving forward!
 
Background bear said:
Williamsburg, VA about an hour east from beautiful Virginia Beach and NAS oceana. Grew up there which is where the passion all started

Side note I wasn’t able to get everything done in time for this board but had my commissioning physical done Wednesday where the doc recommended me for waiver so hoping to be moving forward with ISEL soon 🤙🏼

Hoping yall get your results soon
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I live in Virginia Beach, VA.
Congratulations on ISEL and good luck with your application!
 
fighter-cat22 said:
I’ve been curious, how much of an advantage did you think people in your class who had their PPL or significant flight experience had over those with none.
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lancastershire said:
Not even in yet, but I have talked with a couple aviators about this. There is a diminishing return curve, people with significant experience tend to do well initially and then fall off due to unlearning bad habits. People with moderate experience do better, radio comms are tough for newer pilots with no experience. But as the speed of the aircraft increases (down the pipeline) those moderately experienced students will have a harder time. One guy described it like that.
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Primary is a great equalizer. There are people I know who have several hundred hours who still struggled during primary, whether it be because of the knowledge requirements or the scheduling stress

One area that people with prior experience definitely do better in is instruments (if they're instrument rated). For people who are already instrument-rated, instrument ground school is more or less a review since IFR knowledge is standardized; there are only so many ways you can shoot the same type of approach and you're really only limited by the equipment onboard and the syllabus requirements. I noticed that people with their instrument ratings tended to have a 60 or higher NSS for the instrument phase.

For the rest of us, instrument ground school was a hose of information and learning the nuances of IFR flying was pretty intense. That being said, it was super satisfying going from not really knowing what an ILS is being able to shoot an ILS approach pretty much perfectly within a month
 
elariosa95 said:
Primary is a great equalizer. There are people I know who have several hundred hours who still struggled during primary, whether it be because of the knowledge requirements or the scheduling stress

One area that people with prior experience definitely do better in is instruments (if they're instrument rated). For people who are already instrument-rated, instrument ground school is more or less a review since IFR knowledge is standardized; there are only so many ways you can shoot the same type of approach and you're really only limited by the equipment onboard and the syllabus requirements. I noticed that people with their instrument ratings tended to have a 60 or higher NSS for the instrument phase.

For the rest of us, instrument ground school was a hose of information and learning the nuances of IFR flying was pretty intense. That being said, it was super satisfying going from not really knowing what an ILS is being able to shoot an ILS approach pretty much perfectly within a month
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So at what point in the pipeline do you know what platform of aircraft you will be flying? After primary? Or after Intermediate?
 
jerkybeef4 said:
So at what point in the pipeline do you know what platform of aircraft you will be flying? After primary? Or after Intermediate?
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You select after finishing primary. Intermediate is only required for certain platforms, but most of us end up straight in advanced.

For example, my buddy selected E2's so he has to do multi-engine training in intermediate, and then advanced in the T-45. For tilt-rotor (Ospreys), they do helo intermediate then multi-engine advanced.

Edit: selection is based on needs of the navy and primary performance. I was lucky to do alright enough to get P8s
 
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