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villo0692 said:
Help bubba here. Just got done with SERE. they typically want you to go there prior to starting the FRS, but there was a couple of people in my class who had already finished the FRS and had already checked in into their fleet squadron. This is not usually the case, but it can happen
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Yet another Helo dude - did SERE in the middle of my syllabus becuase I missed my first class date (right after I checked into HSC-2) due to having wisdom teeth. Learned the hard way why they dont like sending studs with events remaining...
 
Reported to Pensacola July 18th and was told that the FO's turnaround time would be Dec-Jan to class up. Fast forward today, and I will now be classing up the 29th of this month... Holy cow, is this great news🥹 Not sure whats happening but they may be expanding the classes since we are a large class.
 
MARTY TARTY said:
Reported to Pensacola July 18th and was told that the FO's turnaround time would be Dec-Jan to class up. Fast forward today, and I will now be classing up the 29th of this month... Holy cow, is this great news🥹 Not sure whats happening but they may be expanding the classes since we are a large class.
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Primary wait times seem to be pretty short lately too. I had 2 weeks between reporting in and classing up. And the classes that have started after me seem to be larger than mine.
 
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Frostydevil said:
Primary wait times seem to be pretty short lately too. I had 2 weeks betwewn reporting in to classing up. And the classes that have started after me seem to be larger than mine.
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most likely, I was working with STUCON for a bit and the class sizes were around 30ish and this class that I'm joining is almost 50
 
MARTY TARTY said:
most likely, I was working with STUCON for a bit and the class sizes were around 30ish and this class that I'm joining is almost 50
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I meant that for my primary class. I waited nearly 9 months to start NIFE, but only got 2 weeks between NIFE and primary. Pretty common story for SNFOs lately.
 
I know time to class up varies and also is dependent on your commissioning date. However, i'm looking to apply for either SNA or NFO. I want to fly helicopters if I went SNA. If you were to estimate - would COPTR take same time to wing as NFO? I'm not too sure i'm sold on the 8+ year commitment of aviation. Was excited to see they offer COPTR for those interested in rotary.
 
Bluetango15 said:
I know time to class up varies and also is dependent on your commissioning date. However, i'm looking to apply for either SNA or NFO. I want to fly helicopters if I went SNA. If you were to estimate - would COPTR take same time to wing as NFO? I'm not too sure i'm sold on the 8+ year commitment of aviation. Was excited to see they offer COPTR for those interested in rotary.
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There’s a forum dedicated to COPTR questions floating around here which would be a great reference for you. Almost all of my NFO friends finished in about 1-1/2 to 2 years from commissioning with the exception of jet NFO’s. Going COPTR would be a shorter time compared to primary for sure but longer compared to NFO. I’ve talked to a few COPTR folks and they’ll probably wing around the 2 to 2-1/2 year mark from commissioning.
 
Bluetango15 said:
I know time to class up varies and also is dependent on your commissioning date. However, i'm looking to apply for either SNA or NFO. I want to fly helicopters if I went SNA. If you were to estimate - would COPTR take same time to wing as NFO? I'm not too sure i'm sold on the 8+ year commitment of aviation. Was excited to see they offer COPTR for those interested in rotary.
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Some pipelines are faster than others. But a lot of them change on the regular and theres a million factors that go into one's time to hit any benchmark. Theres just no reliable way to anwser besides broad generalities based on just the past.

Also, considering the time to train is probably not a good thing to base a career decision on. You wouldn't go to a barber shop that you didnt like just because you spent a few less minutes in the chair, would you?
 
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Bluetango15 said:
I know time to class up varies and also is dependent on your commissioning date. However, i'm looking to apply for either SNA or NFO. I want to fly helicopters if I went SNA. If you were to estimate - would COPTR take same time to wing as NFO? I'm not too sure i'm sold on the 8+ year commitment of aviation. Was excited to see they offer COPTR for those interested in rotary.
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As a reminder, if you go COPTR (which is a good program), you will graduate with only rotary (helicopter) commercial and rotary instrument FAA certification. If you go the traditional route, you will get the helicopter privileges + airplane (single engine land commercial) and airplane instrument from the FAA as well - that opens a lot more doors after the military.
 
Randy Daytona said:
As a reminder, if you go COPTR (which is a good program), you will graduate with only rotary (helicopter) commercial and rotary instrument FAA certification. If you go the traditional route, you will get the helicopter privileges + airplane (single engine land commercial) and airplane instrument from the FAA as well - that opens a lot more doors after the military.
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I have no plans to fly post military. I work with Army black hawks so Im positive that I want to fly 60s. This is part of the reason why I asked about timelines because my goals are to become a Naval Officer to lead sailors, travel and get to see/do cool things. I'm not exactly set on the how, more so they why.

I know a lot of pilot applicants come in due to their passion/desire to fly, but that isn't me. Getting paid to learn to fly of course would be amazing and it's a topic that interest me but not a lifelong goal. So i'm not sure if a 2-3 year training pipeline + 6-8 year commitment is worthwhile for me. I love my current job in aviation but I don't know if I love it so much that I'd want to commit for a decade.
 
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