Doing away with IFS?

[Jim123]

* Cessnas and solos.

Please be a part of a new generation of junior officers who know when and when not to use an apostrophe, even if your parents' generation failed to teach you how.

But seriously- congratulations on successfully passing in the academics. Some college courses are easier, others are harder, but preflight academics is a lot of concepts in a shot time and the academic environment is rather different. As you've just seen, some otherwise successful people can't/won't/don't pick it all up in the time allotted.

 

[plosky1]

Haha oof, and an English major on top of that... glad my pre-flight briefs are done through speaking and not in writing ?.

It was weird because it didn’t feel super hard, but we still had a pretty high attrition rate. There’s also a lot of stuff in flux still that’s being changed, with some of the study material having to be rewritten due to errors.

Instructors were awesome though and really showed their love throughout the whole thing.

 

[Python]

* Cessnas and solos.

Please be a part of a new generation of junior officers who know when and when not to use an apostrophe, even if your parents' generation failed to teach you how.

But seriously- congratulations on successfully passing in the academics. Some college courses are easier, others are harder, but preflight academics is a lot of concepts in a shot time and the academic environment is rather different. As you've just seen, some otherwise successful people can't/won't/don't pick it all up in the time allotted.

Calling him/her out on English skills?

 

[Jim123]

Calling him/her out on English skills?

I wish I could "like" this more than once.

Touché, sir!

 

[flgator92]

edit: forgot to mention there will be no solo's.

That kind of sucks, to be honest. It was the one of the last opportunities for NFOs in the Navy to get a paid solo. I know I enjoyed mine. Too bad. The solo requirement kind of made IFS worth it to me.

 

[Dontcallmegump]

Just finished the academics phase of NIFE. Three weeks wasn't fun for academics but it wasn't too hard. We had it easier for stuff like Aero but harder for Nav and Weather.

Gonna be flying Cessna's next with SkyWarrior. IFS/API's last class also graduated today.

As for class attrition, we started with 39? and ended with 30.

edit: forgot to mention there will be no solo's.

Nearly 25% loss?

How does that breakdown to attrites/DOR (if any) and people rolling back a class?

 

[plosky1]

Nearly 25% loss?

How does that breakdown to attrites/DOR (if any) and people rolling back a class?

No DOR, all rolled down a class with two pink sheets. AFAIK the only "true" attrite so far was an API roll who failed engines our first week.

 

[Dontcallmegump]

No DOR, all rolled down a class with two pink sheets. AFAIK the only "true" attrite so far was an API roll who failed engines our first week.

Jeez, all from test failures? 18 pink sheets between that many people is quite a few.

Then again, new tests and programs usually require a substantial blood sacrifice to appease the gouge gods...

 

[Waveoff]

What is API now? Name in only change or actually a functional difference in curriculum?

Also, RIP to solos. Best part of IFS for sure.

 

[Astro_Rekt]

Will all my hand-me-down API study material still be applicable? I'm assuming so, but with how much shorter academics are, I'm curious.

 

[scoolbubba]

Will all my hand-me-down API study material still be applicable? I'm assuming so, but with how much shorter academics are, I'm curious.

No. A hard charger has fundamentally shifted the aviation training paradigm.

Bernoulli, you're fucking out!

 

[squorch2]

Bernoulli is crap anyway.

Mass flow is where it's at.

(ducks)

 

[Jim123]

Bernoulli is crap anyway.

Mass flow is where it's at.

(ducks)

I don't even know why we bother with subsonic, incompressible flow analysis when Rankine-Hugoniot equations cover everything. Pffffff

 

[Griz882]

Here’s all you need to know...




Lobsters are more aerodynamic than cows. Don’t be a cow pilot.

 

[JTS11]

Bernoulli, you're fucking out!

I play real sports, not trying to be the best at API.