Nami Wammy

[turtle_sc]

Question...

I am applying for STA-21 NFO option. I am going to MCAS Beaufort for a flight physical to make sure I can pass before I drop my package. If I pass this flight physical will I have a problem if I get picked up? I will have to have atleast one waiver (i have a plate and screws on my collar bone, but the flight surgeon seems to think I should be able to get the waiver no problem) Will they give me another physical when I get to Pensacola, or will the one I get now be good enough???? Someone please help....

 

[spr]

Neo,
I'm pretty sure I've had a flight physical b/c I originally was going into the Marines. They sent me for my flight physical and the Navy accepted it as well. That is probably why there is a difference. If I had only been talking with the Navy, I probably would have just gone to MEPs.

 

[prowlerdude]

NAMI is a joke

I just want to vent: that corpsman at NAMI, f___z k__y, claims to be the best friend of people who need waivers at the same time saying there is no way he can help you, ditto for the air force colonel. I suggested they were an organ of the force shaping measures now in place and I must have hit a sensitive nerve, for they became uber defensive (and confirmed my suspicions). It is a mystery of nature why NAMI allows one person to be judge, jury, executioner, appellate judge, and Supreme Court.

 

[dcharles]

I got whammied years ago. Back then we had "NAPE" week, they flew us down to P'cola for our flight physicals before our OCS date. I passed no problem (spent almost a year getting waivers for a screw in my knee prior to that). Once at OCS, they sent us over to NOMI again. I got flagged for an "irregular heartbeat". They put a monitor box on me that I had to wear for a couple of days (loads of fun during indoc week, let me tell you). I went back and they looked over it and told me I couldn't fly. Man was I pissed.

 

[Road Program]

jg...You mentioned you have an astigmatism, right? I can't fly because of it. Well, according to my waiver, I can't have actual control of the aircraft. That means I'm qualified for naval aviation, but not to control a plane. In other words, even though my eyesight is within limits for pilot and I got a higher PFAR than FOFAR on my ASTB (which they supposedly don't count anymore), I'm an SNFO.

I had two different flight physicals by two different flight surgeons (one's also an F-14 pilot...weird, I know) and they both found the same things throughout the physical, and they were a little over a year apart.

 

[Dunedan]

I was a BDCPer with a pilot slot. My vision is 20/40 in one eye, and 20/30 in the other...just within the passing limits. However, they did find a slight astigmatism in my left eye that was "out of tolerance": the limit is -0.50 diopters, mine is -0.75. So they offered me an NFO slot, or said I could get out if I wanted...