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4thpage

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Hey, everybody! Could someone please take the time to list all the jobs for pilots and a little about what they do? Also, if you give me an abbreviation, please tell me what it stands for. Tell me if it's Jet, HC, or Prop too please.

I'm really enjoying finding out all this information from the people actually doing it.

Thanks a lot,
Alan
 
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Tessone

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http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/factfile/ffiletop.html is the Navy Fact File. That'll give you an idea of what aircraft are out there, etc.

As for jobs, well, there's really only two kinds. There's NA--Naval Aviator, quite simply, a pilot. Then there's NFO--Naval Flight Officer. They serve as Radar Intercept Officers (RIOs) in fighters or as Electronic Warfare Officers (NWOs) in Prowlers.

As for acronyms, check out http://www.acronymfinder.com/ It doesn't have everything, but it has most acronyms you'd need to know.
 
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4thpage

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Thanks, Tessone. Those link were helpful. That acronym site is pretty cool, huh?

I was actually wanting to know the various jobs NAs do (who flies what aircraft and what that particular job entails); and does a pilot have any choice in what he gets once he graduates flight school, or is he just assigned.

Thanks again,
Alan
 
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Tessone

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Originally posted by 4thpage
Thanks, Tessone. Those link were helpful. That acronym site is pretty cool, huh?
Click to expand...

Yeah, I just wish there were a military version of it. I thought about developing one, but I don't know if there would be interest. What do you guys think?

As for pilot jobs, basically, if you get designated a Naval Aviator, you fly planes. If you get designated Naval Flight Officer, you don't, you backseat and run other systems in the plane. Who gets these jobs? Well, if you're supposed to be a Naval Aviator, you'll become a Student Naval Aviator (SNA) after OCS. You'll head off to API (Aviation Pre-Indoctrination) to take some classes, then it's off to Primary. There you'll learn the basics of flying and select your platform. Your choices are helos, props, and jets. This selection is based on your scores at flight school and the ever-popular "needs of the Navy" (or Marine Corps, in my case).

Once you know your platform, you'll go to Intermediate and Advanced for that platform. Basically, you'll fly more props if you select props, or you'll learn how to fly a jet or helo if you select one of those platforms. It's here that you select your final plane--if you select for jets, for instance, you won't know until then whether you'll be flying the Hornet, the Prowler, etc. So go take a look at the fact file--if it has propellors on it, it's props, if it's under "rotary wing", it's a helo, and if it ain't one of those, it's probably a jet. :) That will give you an idea of where you could end up, but never forget, "needs of the Navy" come before your own ambitions. After you're designated for a particular machine, you'll go to a fleet readiness squadron to get ready for the fleet.

As for NFO, I know less about that process. I think it's basically analagous, only NFOs only serve on jets.

Check out this site for some more info about flight school:
http://members.aol.com/DaveUF96/Journal.htm


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Chris Tessone
http://www.polyglut.net/
 
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