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Time in between API and Primary

Heh... 1 to 6 weeks its lookin now. When are you gonna be in C-Pool? Have fun movin furniture
 
Just a question, isn't there supposed to be NO wait? I had heard that the way it worked is that the MPTB call the LPTB at API & say "class up 16 SNFO's, we're gonna want 'em in 6 weeks" or "class up 9 SNA's, we want 'em in (Corpus, Enid) in 8 weeks (or Whiting in 6 weeks)". Thought that b/c of the MPTB's master plan, there was supposed to be no wait? Or have I been drinking too much of the free Kool Aid again (the same one they're handing out on DDG's set for Sea Swap)?
 
All of the guys I've talked to in the past few months classed up at their squadron within 1-3 weeks. There are VERY FEW exceptions to this, unless you have some sort of medical or admin issue. API won't keep you around after you're done- they send you straight to the TRAWING for them to do with you as they please.
 
Good, so it looks there is not too much of a wait....we are trying to figure out if I am flying back for a wedding by myself or if my husband can go too. My husband would just rather I flew in and flew out and ANY TIME in between we can all spend as a family (He really doesn't want to go:) ha! Supposedly they said after you are done with all the academic part of API, you could see what the wait time is for Primary. I would think it would be better to have little or no time in between but I have heard the wait can be a few months sometimes!
 
SNFO's check-in to TRAWING-6 the day before or the day of API graduation. Then they are assigned to C-pool for some period of time. Right now, it looks like just a few weeks. When I checked in to the wing last May it was an 8 week wait to be assigned to VT-4. Then it is up to what he does after Primary to do the waiting thing again. If he goes carrier air he'll go to VT-86 right across the street from VT-4/10. He can expect about a 2 week wait to class up at VT-86 and then it's off to the races.

Hope this helps.
 
Fmr1833 said:
SNFO's check-in to TRAWING-6 the day before or the day of API graduation. Then they are assigned to C-pool for some period of time. Right now, it looks like just a few weeks. When I checked in to the wing last May it was an 8 week wait to be assigned to VT-4. Then it is up to what he does after Primary to do the waiting thing again. If he goes carrier air he'll go to VT-86 right across the street from VT-4/10. He can expect about a 2 week wait to class up at VT-86 and then it's off to the races.

Hope this helps.
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Thanks a ton....I think his first choice is superhornets, although someone was telling him there isn't much for a NFO to do on those now????? There are so many rumors that fly. Supposedly if you do well in API and will go to vance you can convert to SNA also. He said he wasn't sure how much truth was in that either.
 
Hey matt's been calling me a bunch but I've been busy. I classed up to VT-4 only 1 week out of API. A few others in my class were 1-2 weeks waiting. Seems like they're pushing us through very fast. As for hornets...seems a bad NFO would be nothing more than lost fuel but a good one makes the pilots life a lot easier and makes the plane go and (more importantly) come back :) Flying an airplane isn't hard. Flying it somewhere specific, doing something once you get there and flying it back to where you started...that's hard.
 
dnweinreb said:
Hey matt's been calling me a bunch but I've been busy. I classed up to VT-4 only 1 week out of API. A few others in my class were 1-2 weeks waiting. Seems like they're pushing us through very fast. As for hornets...seems a bad NFO would be nothing more than lost fuel but a good one makes the pilots life a lot easier and makes the plane go and (more importantly) come back :) Flying an airplane isn't hard. Flying it somewhere specific, doing something once you get there and flying it back to where you started...that's hard.
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Hey do you have his number still? So what you are telling me is 1-2 weeks tops right;) I told him I would wait until next Friday to book my ticket, but I don't even know if they will tell him anything then. (That is his last API test). So "dnweinreb", what do you want to fly???:)
 
TheBubba said:
Yah man... there now. Been here just short of a week.
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Ahh, well that's good. I just got cleared for my knee on wednesday so hopefully I'll be able to start soon.
 
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