Give this man a NAM for attitude
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API After Action 2019
- Thread starter Dontcallmegump
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Currently, the ticker starts with API academic failures. IFS failures don't officially count towards the primary and beyond attrition process. Unofficially, it might get looked at in a TRB or something along those lines.
Haha fly or die baby. I’ll die with my hand on a PCL and stick.
I agree, you might. The throttles are a useful tool in the cockpit....maybe more so than the PCL.
Gotcha, that's what I meant, API not IFS.
Jeff Ballou
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Slightly related to your experience with API/Pensacola, did you receive your full BAH down here? Have heard some guys getting transient BAH which is about half.
Some got full, some got transient. No one really seemed to know why some peoples' orders were written differently.
You really don't have to enjoy studying NATOPS quite that much . . .
Scuttlebutt has it that one or two OCS classes worth of SNAs got lucky and got full BAH during API because of how orders were written. Most USNA and ROTC SNAs got the transient. I want to say NFOs all get full as their whole training is at Pensacola.
Full this year is 1242 for single 0-1, no E and transient was about 750. Milton is the same if you go there.
Unless you’re married or a NFO, you should be getting “partial”. Roughly 740 some odd dollars. They consider Pensacola a “temporary” command because in theory, IFS and API should take less than 6 months. With the wait though... not really the case. After 170 days in Pensacola, you SHOULD be able to transfer to 342 orders for full BAH. I’ve heard it’s been hit and miss lately though.. Just stick to plastic bottles of vodka and you should be fine.
PCL = power control lever, i.e., what the rest of us call the throttle. But that's hilarious that you think anyone would want to die with a pocket checklist (PCL) in their hands.
I guess I was in the batch of lucky single SNAs who were getting full BAH in Pensacola. I wonder if they sorted that out by now.
shrug
Always thought that the T-6 went overkill with calling it the PCL. In the P8 we call them "Thrust levers" if you said power levers you were attrited on the spot from the RAG.
It was a PCL in the T-34 too wasn't it?Always thought that the T-6 went overkill with calling it the PCL. In the P8 we call them "Thrust levers" if you said power levers you were attrited on the spot from the RAG.
60 also has PCLs but they're used very differently.
Yes. But regardless of platform, it's doing what it's called. You set the power you are requesting, and then the engine schedules what it needs to give you that power. Sure you might be manipulating a different widget, but the PCLs in both aircraft are doing the same thing.