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RumorBuster
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Pat,Patmack18 said:
Congrats. Your hard work has paid off and now welcome to the world of JETS...
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Looks like this thread is dieing out. I guess I have answered all the questions....Just Go Jets....
lotsoquestions
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I have a quick question. On a Sea tour, how much actual time do you spend on the boat. I know you have a 6-month cruise, but other than that, how much time are you away from home? And if you're P-3 or some other land-based platform, do you have Sea Tours at all? Thanks
Rumorbuster,
Sir just a couple of quick questions to keep the flow going:
1. With the lack of June and July boats at Meridian, does that mean that winging dates will get bumped back two months for everyone or just those close to CQ?
2. I've heard that Kingsville guys fly better form than Meridianites. Is this true? if so what do you think the cause is?
3.What kind of timing is acceptable in a fleet squadron as far as TOT is concerned?
Thanks for your help sir.
Sir just a couple of quick questions to keep the flow going:
1. With the lack of June and July boats at Meridian, does that mean that winging dates will get bumped back two months for everyone or just those close to CQ?
2. I've heard that Kingsville guys fly better form than Meridianites. Is this true? if so what do you think the cause is?
3.What kind of timing is acceptable in a fleet squadron as far as TOT is concerned?
Thanks for your help sir.
SpeedyJ said:
Flight school isn't a big deal, be it jets, props, or helo's. Even the FRS isn't bad. Its when you reach the fleet when things are going to get busy, especially for a tactical guy. Work-ups, dets, cruise are all taxing on the family. It can be done, there are plenty of aviators with family's but you will miss out on quite a bit. Hell, I'm a COD pilot and have it the easiest of all carrier aviators and have missed out on quite a bit of my daughters life. Such is naval aviation.
lotsoquestions said:
To answer the P-3 question, I am not sure Rumorbuster wants to touch that one, you do spend time at sea. For your third tour, your second 'sea' tour, you will do what is called a diassociated sea tour. This is usually not a flying tour for P-3 types. Among the jobs you can get are the Assistant Navigator of a carrier, a catapult officer or "shooter", a Tactiacl Action Officer controlling the defense of the ship or on a seagoing staff. Basically, you kind of play SWO for 2 years. These billets used to be filled up to 60% by VP guys with E-2 and helo taking up most of the rest. Jet guys have started to fill up a lot of those billets in the last few years. A few VP guys do luck out and flying orders for their disassociated sea tour but you will find out about that when and if you go P-3's.
Just to supplement what Flash said (and I don't mean to threadjack away from the jets discussion), P3s are going from an 18 month cycle (6 months deployed, 12 months home) to a 24 month cycle (6 months deployed, 18 month home cycle), so you might only see 1 deployment if your timing is off, which can hurt you in your progression and flight hours. If you are the first plane out, and last back, you can be deployed up to 7 months, but it is rare to see anything other than that. If you have any other P3 questions, drop them over in Advanced Prop, and we will answer them there. <end threadjack>
Bunky!! It isn't so, the grass isn't greener!!
With regards to deployment, I will keep my trap shut, I know I have it good, but then again, you COD guys even put US to shame....
Especially for a tactical guy? Homecycle for non-tactical (helos/P3s) can be just as brutal with DETs, IDRC, briefs, tactics, recce and training requirements. Personally I HATE homecycle and all the BS that comes with it, the squadron should be the same relaxed and motivated atmostphere as it is on deployment, but alas the dreaded Training and OPS gets together to ruin everything....bunk22 said:
With regards to deployment, I will keep my trap shut, I know I have it good, but then again, you COD guys even put US to shame....
webmaster said:
Sorry man but I don't know much about non-carrier aviation. When I spoke, the carrier community is whom I was refering to. Although COD pilots have it good, I spent over 9 of the 12 months of deployment on the ship. I know ship life well. Of course it's still not so bad for us GOD....I mean COD guys.
Rumorbuster, this may have been touched on a little bit earlier but, when exactly do they start giving out jet slots for FY05? I would assume that it would be the first week in October, but I have heard (we all know what this usually means) that they can start giving them out earlier sometimes. Just wondering if the poor guys and gals like me who are gonna select in September have any hope of selecting strike, especially the way things seem to be heading now with next to zero slots available here and its only May. I know we shouldn't be worrying about this stuff now but its tough to keep up the motivation when we're pretty much told that were screwed right of the bat.
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