Origionally posted by Daedalus:
Your profile says still in school, what school are you attending/ what are you studying? You are a pilot correct?Would it help your application to have your pilot's license, or hurt it? And does anyone know definitively what the age limit is with no prior service for SNA?
1. I'm at the University of Oklahoma. I'm a aviation management major, and yes, I'm a commercially rated pilot.
2. As far as the age things goes, I have no idea. I'm not up to speed on OCS qualifications because well, I'm NROTC. Check out the OCS forum and dig around some of the old posts. When in doubt, ask your good old navy recruiter if you can read the actual OCS application instructions. I'm sure if you wanted you could probably find those instructions somewhere on the internet as well.
3. Let's see...as far as having flight experience, it certainly wouldn't hurt (and that's my personal opinion). As far as the application and selection process goes, who knows if it plays a role. You would think it does, but if you check out the OCS forum, you might find a flight instructor or two with a gazillion hours and great scores who were turned down. Based upon discussions I've had with friends and officers who've recently completed primary and intermediate, people with prior flight experience tend to be a bit ahead of the power curve (there are those who bomb out, don't get me wrong). It's a lot to get in an airplane for the second and third time and be able to take off, manage radio calls, look for traffic, fly course rules, etc. With prior flight experience you don't have to necessarily learn to fly, you more or less transition into a different flying style. Military and civilian aviaion differ considerably. Pick up what I'm puttin' down?
4. PRK...there's a forum about that somewhere around here
or look for the instructions on line
or through that Navy recruiter guy. I apologize that I can't answer your question, but I don't where glasses.
Well, I think that about covers it. Not to be a butthead or anything, but like a few guys mentioned before in some earlier posts, all of you questions have been answered or explained somewhere in the forum. Check it out, there is a plethora of good gouge out there!!
Good luck!!!!
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