3 Of The Biggest Lies In Aviation

[Joshrk22]

Yup, and tell your family about the Montgomery GI bill you'll have when you get out. And the VHA home loan benefits. And the wealth of experience that a civilian aviator could only dream of. Try landing an aircraft with more holes in it than when it departed. 30mm AA fire will do that to ya. :erm: Come to think of it, that's probably why your family wants you as a civvy pilot. Go military aviation and you WILL be deployed to the Middle East sooner or later. Good luck either way!

It's got it's up and downs. I suppose that if you don't mind getting shot at then the military is for you. Me personally, I think the military is the way to go... but we'll just wait and see how it turns out.

 

[UndauntedFlyer]

Please help me!

I'm confused here and somewhat new to the Board. I mean no disrespect but how do these posts and conversatons about military operations get into a thread about civilian flight training Part 61 vrs. Part 141....

2002-2004 as a DESRON FIFTEEN staff operations puke. Bad tour as it was dissasociated which meant NO flying... So I got to be a SWO to see the "big Navy" for cultural exposure, I guess. Barf... That was my last tour. Unfortunately, they make all the LAMPS guys do the disassociated tour and, as a result, the Navy loses a lot of good pilots (before and after the tour) and corporate knowledge and just has to spend mucho taxpayer $$$ to train newbies to replace them. Even when they "finish" and get winged, there's still the RAG (or FRS these days) to get through and not tank it. Not the easiest phase, either. All just to end up in a squadron with ZERO fleet/operational/tactical experience...

Kitty Hawk, 94-97, as an AS3 SE mech. Had some good times on her!! What years for you?

A LOT of $$$. When I was in flight school, the going trend was 7 students to actually get one flight recruit out of college from zero time all the way to operating/flying in the fleet due to academic or flight skill attrition, injury, being a dumb ass, whatever. Saw more than a few of my young invincible compadres get the boot for DUI or getting caught with a video camera while actually trying to fly an aerobatic solo in the T-34. One guy actually figured out a way to splice the camera audio into his helmet/ICS, but woops! Got some wires crossed and he ended up "narrating" in the clear to God and everyone and over the radio on the area common frequency. XO happened to be flying at the time, too! Instantly removed from the program. I wonder why he couldn't figure that one out because one shouldn't be getting a side-tone if the "narrative" commentary was meant for internal comms only...

Ah, good times. Wonder how it is these days...

 

[Joshrk22]

I'm confused here and somewhat new to the Board. I mean no disrespect but how do these posts and conversatons about military operations get into a thread about civilian flight training Part 61 vrs. Part 141....

Actually I do believe some Flight Training Programs are better than others...look at the Air Force and Navy. Why does the Air Force have better pilots than the Navy?


I'm sure I will get flamed on this post, especially since there are a few guys with USN Convo's going on already.


:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

You must've missed that post. Here you go!

 

[troy]

I'm confused here and somewhat new to the Board. I mean no disrespect but how do these posts and conversatons about military operations get into a thread about civilian flight training Part 61 vrs. Part 141....

Then don't read it.

 

[pgcfii2002]

THREE MOST USELESS THINGS FOR PILOTS:

1) The runway behind you
2) The altitude above you
3) The fuel you should have put on before you took off

 

[DrewBlows]

I'm confused here and somewhat new to the Board. I mean no disrespect but how do these posts and conversatons about military operations get into a thread about civilian flight training Part 61 vrs. Part 141....

Thread creep. Get used to it. It's the Flightinfo law of certainty. No matter what the topic, if a thread gets long enough it will turn into a PFT (pay-for-training) debate, someone will bash Mesa, a political debate will ensue ("Republicans are better!", "Democrats are better!", "liberal media!", "Fox News sucks!", ect.), the "race to the bottom" will be discussed, and someone will bring up the RJDC. And no matter how serious a question, someone will have a smartass comment something to the effect of "you are stupid to ask that question, and I was born with that knowledge". Welcome to Flightinfo, have fun.

 

[UndauntedFlyer]

Thanks for taking the time to explain. I understand.