gradygibson
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I don't post here often, but I'm trying to exhaust all resources.
I was doing great in flight training all the way up until my FAM 0, never had a single failed event and always had great comments on flights in NIFE and sims in Primary. When I met my on-wing though, I wasn't as prepared as my partner and we got off on the wrong foot from there, it's felt like I've just been trying to dig myself out of the hole I started in for the past few weeks since then. I own not knowing as much as I should've early on when we started flying, but I've made big strides to improve and it still doesn't feel like enough.
Long story short, I got a ready room unsat when I was briefing FAM4102 a couple of weeks ago for the second time (got airsick the first time I did FAM4102 and had to redo it), and when I was up for an IPC, he wasn't confident enough in my knowledge to pass me on that either. I'm up for a COPC next week, and if I fail that, that's it for my career in naval aviation. I've been studying my ass off (and I'm going to get back to it as soon as I'm done typing this out), but the bar keeps getting higher with each progress check. It stops being a FAM4102 and starts being an assessment of you overall. I met with the instructor who'll be conducting my COPC, he said it's going to be on everything leading up to FAM4102 to include all the sims. That's a lot to prep for, which isn't necessarily impossible, but I'm afraid the depth of what they're looking for is going to be deeper than my understanding, even with all the preparation I'm doing. I'm trying to figure out how to impress the instructor this time around because this situation keeps snowballing on me and this will be my last shot. Getting an unsat, let alone a COPC, is incredibly rare in this block and everyone I tell my story to seems blown away that I even wound up in this situation. I'm not sure what I need to do differently to show that I give a shit and have good judgment as an aviator.
For what it's worth, both my on-wing and the person who conducted my IPC commented that I had a good attitude. Like I said, I'm not trying to deflect blame, I'm just feeling a little exasperated trying to unfuck myself right now.
All I really want is to knock this out of the park so I can get out from under the microscope and go back to being a normal student. I'm getting with other people as much as I can and am just trying to swallow my pride so I don't triple tap a FAM4100 block event and lose my shot at getting my wings. Any advice is appreciated.
I was doing great in flight training all the way up until my FAM 0, never had a single failed event and always had great comments on flights in NIFE and sims in Primary. When I met my on-wing though, I wasn't as prepared as my partner and we got off on the wrong foot from there, it's felt like I've just been trying to dig myself out of the hole I started in for the past few weeks since then. I own not knowing as much as I should've early on when we started flying, but I've made big strides to improve and it still doesn't feel like enough.
Long story short, I got a ready room unsat when I was briefing FAM4102 a couple of weeks ago for the second time (got airsick the first time I did FAM4102 and had to redo it), and when I was up for an IPC, he wasn't confident enough in my knowledge to pass me on that either. I'm up for a COPC next week, and if I fail that, that's it for my career in naval aviation. I've been studying my ass off (and I'm going to get back to it as soon as I'm done typing this out), but the bar keeps getting higher with each progress check. It stops being a FAM4102 and starts being an assessment of you overall. I met with the instructor who'll be conducting my COPC, he said it's going to be on everything leading up to FAM4102 to include all the sims. That's a lot to prep for, which isn't necessarily impossible, but I'm afraid the depth of what they're looking for is going to be deeper than my understanding, even with all the preparation I'm doing. I'm trying to figure out how to impress the instructor this time around because this situation keeps snowballing on me and this will be my last shot. Getting an unsat, let alone a COPC, is incredibly rare in this block and everyone I tell my story to seems blown away that I even wound up in this situation. I'm not sure what I need to do differently to show that I give a shit and have good judgment as an aviator.
For what it's worth, both my on-wing and the person who conducted my IPC commented that I had a good attitude. Like I said, I'm not trying to deflect blame, I'm just feeling a little exasperated trying to unfuck myself right now.
All I really want is to knock this out of the park so I can get out from under the microscope and go back to being a normal student. I'm getting with other people as much as I can and am just trying to swallow my pride so I don't triple tap a FAM4100 block event and lose my shot at getting my wings. Any advice is appreciated.