T-6B NATOPS

[NavAir42]

The far more interesting question: how long will the FITU continue to have current T-34 IPs to train guys for the satellite sites? Or will the Wing 5 Commodore pass the torch to the Corpus Commodore? I'm not sure that would be a good thing.

<----------Your answer lies under my user name. OK, so maybe not entirely answer your question, but the FITU is completely shutdown at Whiting.

 

[KBayDog]

^Boot.

 

[Gatordev]

<----------Your answer lies under my user name. OK, so maybe not entirely answer your question, but the FITU is completely shutdown at Whiting.

The whole FITU or just the T-34 side? If it's the whole thing, I'm surprised. At one point, they had Corpus looking at going to a FITU model and Whiting was going to a split model for both platforms.

 

[NavAir42]

My bad, just the T-34 side is shut down. The T-6 side of the house is all there is now at the FITU.

 

[Reconjoe]

A little more RUMINT:

College buddy just started VT2 ground school on Monday and they were told that they would be the "next to last T-34 class"

Makes sense, that class he briefed won't start for another couple weeks at best....

 

[wlawr005]

Checked into TW5 today for about 10 seconds before they told me to get my shit and get over to VT-6 ASAP.

Last T-34 class-up date written on the board behind the desks was 17Oct...looks like the old T-34 will be done at Whiting after that.

 

[eas7888]

That sucks that you missed out on the T-34 man.

 

[jtmedli]

That sucks that you missed out on the T-34 man.

Not really. T6Bs are pretty damn fun . Did my aerobatic solo earlier this week. 8 barrel rolls, 4 loops, Cuban 8 and 4-5 wingovers. Good times-a-plenty to be had.

 

[wlawr005]

That sucks that you missed out on the T-34 man.

yeah...got the ground school syllabus today. Not really excited about it.

 

[Wingnut172N]

Just got done with the physiology portion of API and everyone going to Whiting got a T-6B qual. No more dual-qual going on. Corpus and Vance folks got T-34C training, NFO's got T-6A and Whiting got T-6B.

 

[MIDNJAC]

Pretty sure Vance studs get T-6A training, unless API jumped into a time-machine back to the 50's since I've been there

 

[Wingnut172N]

The word we got was that the USAF didn't recognize the USN training, so the Vance studs were indeed sent through T-34C training...doesn't make much sense, but that's how they did it (at least for my class).

 

[wlawr005]

yeah, the Vance guys didn't even do ALL of the T-34 training in my class. They also have to repeat portions of API when they get to Vance because the AF combines API with Primary ground school (or something like that).

 

[wlawr005]

yeah...got the ground school syllabus today. Not really excited about it.

I take this post back, I AM really exicted, but it looks like a lot of work to do in a very short span.

 

[MIDNJAC]

Interesting......I remember the Vance folks and NFO's all breaking off for their T-6A training back when I did it. Maybe things are different now that the Navy does the T-6 for pilot primary as well....