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You think you hate it now...
Gee, this sounds just like an "abbreviated" API...
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Care to Try Naval Aviation for a Week?
Hmmmm... this could be interesting... a one week tryout as a Naval Aviator? Sounds even better than Summer camp! The Navy is giving college students and graduates a one-week aviation tryout to boost recruitment and reduce a flight-training dropout rate that can be as high as 25 percent.
One purpose is to weed out those who lack the commitment or physical and mental attributes necessary to get through rigorous and expensive training programs for pilots and navigators. "The other part of this is the motivational aspect, bringing them down here and giving them an aviation, quasi-Top Gun experience and getting them feeling good and pumped up about the fact that they want to do this,'' said Capt. A.J. Gallardo.
Since January, the Navy has brought 100 young men and women to Pensacola Naval Air Station in small groups once a month for the Aviation Certification Evaluation and Screening Program. Participants undergo physical training and swimming tests, get medical examinations and take rides in turboprop training planes.
"It's hard to comprehend what it is like until you get down here and see how the whole process works,'' said Dan Brown, 26, a copy machine salesman who graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1996 and opted to stick with flight training. "Nothing was sugarcoated.''
The Navy plans to expand the program next year to Naval Academy graduates and students in Officer Candidate School.
quote:
Care to Try Naval Aviation for a Week?
Hmmmm... this could be interesting... a one week tryout as a Naval Aviator? Sounds even better than Summer camp! The Navy is giving college students and graduates a one-week aviation tryout to boost recruitment and reduce a flight-training dropout rate that can be as high as 25 percent.
One purpose is to weed out those who lack the commitment or physical and mental attributes necessary to get through rigorous and expensive training programs for pilots and navigators. "The other part of this is the motivational aspect, bringing them down here and giving them an aviation, quasi-Top Gun experience and getting them feeling good and pumped up about the fact that they want to do this,'' said Capt. A.J. Gallardo.
Since January, the Navy has brought 100 young men and women to Pensacola Naval Air Station in small groups once a month for the Aviation Certification Evaluation and Screening Program. Participants undergo physical training and swimming tests, get medical examinations and take rides in turboprop training planes.
"It's hard to comprehend what it is like until you get down here and see how the whole process works,'' said Dan Brown, 26, a copy machine salesman who graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1996 and opted to stick with flight training. "Nothing was sugarcoated.''
The Navy plans to expand the program next year to Naval Academy graduates and students in Officer Candidate School.
