NSS Going away in API?

[SpeednAngles]

Has anyone else heard this?

 

[Swanee]

Wow, is that what the rumor mill is spreading around these days?

 

[phrogdriver]

It'll be like kindergarten...check mark "satisfactory" or "unsatisfactory."

Honor grad gets a smiley face in the corner.

 

[statesman]

Pure Speculation here

But my guess is that NSS wont be going away, more likely that they would get rid of the minimum NSS to continue training. Just a guess.

 

[KCOTT]

you spelled "Angels" wrong

 

[CumminsPilot]

I once had an NSS at API...

 

[lowster]

Could someone explain what NSS is? I take from the posts it is a grading system, but I thought they used it in Primary to grade your flights. Grading for the tests in API as well?

 

[zippy]

Could someone explain what NSS is? I take from the posts it is a grading system, but I thought they used it in Primary to grade your flights. Grading for the tests in API as well?

NSS in simple terms: Your raw score on events compared to the last X amount of people in front of you and spit out on a scale that ranges from 20-80. 50+ is "jet grades" for Navy, 52+ for Marine Corps... Below 35 at the completion of training means you might not be winged or sent off to advanced etc. They have them for both flight events and academics, including API.

 

[jtmedli]

NSS in simple terms: Your raw score on events compared to the last X amount of people in front of you and spit out on a scale that ranges from 20-80. 50+ is "jet grades" for Navy, 52+ for Marine Corps... Below 35 at the completion of training means you might not be winged or sent off to advanced etc. They have them for both flight events and academics, including API.

In even simpler terms: It's your average (of all your test grades) compared to everyone else's average. It's how you "stack up" against your peers.

 

[PerDiem]

They changed the way they are calculating the NSS is the way it was explained to us. A bunch of people that were NSS'd out and were up for re-designation are now being given the opportunity to go back and complete API. Basically at this point, 80's get you through API.

 

[Swanee]

They changed the way they are calculating the NSS is the way it was explained to us. A bunch of people that were NSS'd out and were up for re-designation are now being given the opportunity to go back and complete API. Basically at this point, 80's get you through API.

You mean someone somewhere may have thought that it is stupid to attrite a Navy SNA who averages a 92 on all of their tests during API?

 

[PerDiem]

You mean someone somewhere may have thought that it is stupid to attrite a Navy SNA who averages a 92 on all of their tests during API?

For now at least.

 

[lowflier03]

You mean someone somewhere may have thought that it is stupid to attrite a Navy SNA who averages a 92 on all of their tests during API?

Funny how that works. Similar thing happened about a year after I finished API and now a bunch of my YG is being pushed a year on boards to supposedly cover the gap since the YG behind us is predicted to be too thin to fill all their DH slots.

 

[fattestfoot]

It's weird too, cause I've heard both that there are too many SNA's right now, and also not enough. Getting rid of the NSS requirement seems to jive better with the not enough.

 

[Swanee]

It's weird too, cause I've heard both that there are too many SNA's right now, and also not enough. Getting rid of the NSS requirement seems to jive better with the not enough.

Probably too many in a pool waiting to start, not enough in the pipeline.