UAV's for UPT Grads

[K-Mart]

I just wanna know... when is the first class of UAV nerds going through the Weapons School?

As soon as they have a need to get themselves promoted they will cook up a UAV weapons school. Weapons school has become a promotion tool.

 

[Be 23]

Guys that "fly" satellites are already there. UAV 'pilots' couldn't be any worse.

 

[LJDRVR]

Guys that "fly" satellites are already there. UAV 'pilots' couldn't be any worse.

Who? Newton? A guy I used to work with finished up his career as Superintendent out there at Peterson. When I talked to him, he smugly explained how he was "flying" GPS satellites and asked me what I had been doing.

"Nothing as exiting as that."

I told him. :laugh:

 

[jhwk0309]

It's amazing what these guys tell themselves to sleep better at night. I bet we only hear a tenth of their thoughts.

 

[AuburnRedneck9]

This might be old news but my friend in UPT was told the first UAVs will drop with 09-05. So in a few months....

 

[Huggyu2]

News update: the first UAV drops to UPT students took place this past Friday.

 

[Schwanker]

News update: the first UAV drops to UPT students took place this past Friday.

So how did it play out? Did the bottom of class get stuck with the left overs or did they force it on others to prevent a stigma?

 

[Huggyu2]

I have no idea how good the students that got the UAV's are. However, it appears that a Vance T-1 grad got 1 UAV, and a Laughlin T-38 grad got another.

 

[SIG600]

I have no idea how good the students that got the UAV's are. However, it appears that a Vance T-1 grad got 1 UAV, and a Laughlin T-38 grad got another.

Are they on suicide watch? Talk about crushing a guys motivation.

 

[Huggyu2]

They will do 3 years in the drone, then get assigned a manned aircraft,.... just about the time their peers are getting assigned to a drone from their manned aircraft.
On the bright side, they'll get very marketable experience in the Pred/Reaper.
And it's a better deal than the banked pilot deal of the early 90's.... or the stuff the happened in the late 70's.

 

[satpak77]

They will do 3 years in the drone, then get assigned a manned aircraft,.... just about the time their peers are getting assigned to a drone from their manned aircraft.
On the bright side, they'll get very marketable experience in the Pred/Reaper.
And it's a better deal than the banked pilot deal of the early 90's.... or the stuff the happened in the late 70's.

well I suppose I would rather get it done with at the front of my flying career than always have the prospect hanging over my head.

nothing like UAV's at the end when you have those resumes out at the airlines....

I am sure UAV currency goes a long way at FedEx...

 

[Birdstrike]

well I suppose I would rather get it done with at the front of my flying career than always have the prospect hanging over my head.

nothing like UAV's at the end when you have those resumes out at the airlines....

Front...end??? What I thought I read was UAV, manned, Pentagon, UAV, manned, Pentagon, and like that.

They can't let you go...you'll know too much.

 

[LearLove]

or the stuff the happened in the late 70's.

it happened to my father in the early/mid seventies. went to F-4's out of UPT then after 2 years his unit went away with the Vietnam draw down. his only options were pentagon or EC/KC-135's. So he flew 135's until 78 when he could get out and on with the airlines. he was able to return to fighters (O-2 and A-37) in the guard.

 

[SIG600]

Front...end??? What I thought I read was UAV, manned, Pentagon, UAV, manned, Pentagon, and like that.

They can't let you go...you'll know too much.

Exactly. Tell them that now, then yank the carpet out from under them with the "needs of the service."

 

[Benhuntn]

'What is the training track for UAV? MS sim flight, solo an RC?