Quick answer. No.Bighead said:Quick question from what people have seen going throught the pipeline does having prior flight training (i.e. Commercial, Inst ratings) help at all?
As far as the radios go: General Aviation is to Naval Aviation as verbosity is to brevity. That should be on the friggin' ASTB.Steve Wilkins said:Quick answer. No.
The only thing you're gonna get from prior flight training is learning the monkey skills and maybe even get comfortable on the radio. Two things with this. One, even a monkey can learn monkey skills. Two, even though talking on the radio is easier with experience, there are still certain key words and tricky phrases you'll need to learn in the Navy's version of flight training.
Bighead said:Quick question from what people have seen going throught the pipeline does having prior flight training (i.e. Commercial, Inst ratings) help at all? Any pros and cons seen? Thanks!
Ok, I'm confused about the grading. I thought certain items were supposed to be graded on every flight, but now I've been hearing that if you meet mif early enough, you don't have to do it over again, and if your instructor grades you again and you do better than before, your NSS goes down because you have more graded items. I have no idea what is going on. Can an IP tank my NSS by making me do extra maneuvers I don't need to, even if I do them well?