zoomie08
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That is what they were talking about adding as far as it was explained to me.
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API Curriculum Mod
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That is what they were talking about adding as far as it was explained to me.
This is another case of why talking about something you have yet to experience is a bad idea. Unless you are severely uncoordinated then you can be taught the required monkey skills. Good headwork and good Situational Awareness are much more important skills for flying successfully than having the world's greatest motor skills. Guys with 35 NSSs in primary go to South Field and manage to learn to hover, a skill that is entirely hand-eye coordination.
What the tests do is better indicate your ability to learn and retain the vast amount of information you need to learn in flight school. Until you've been in your fleet squadron a while, the amount of information you need to learn seems to grow exponentially. If you can't handle the tests in API, then you probably can't handle the amount of information you need to learn latter. The volume of water coming out of the fire hydrant only increases.
ghost
UpstateSouthpaw
On to Whiting North
It's great that everyone is tearing apart my posts and all... but I was wondering if anyone could also answer the questions I had about the JPATS program (see above)?
MasterBates
Well-Known Member
Ghost is right on.
Ground school for the E-2 is shorter than the T-45 which was shorter than API.
And look at the increasing complexity in decreasing time. If I did not have a semi-solid background, I would be lost in the sauce here at the RAG.
Some of the IPs may argue that anyways, but at least I have a clue of WHAT the majic boxes are doing and what happens when I push and pull on things up in the cockpit.
If you can't handle API at twice the pace, you shouldn't be a Naval Aviator or NFO.
I partied my ass off in API and rocked it. Now, not so much. A harder, shorter 3 week API would be more telling of how you will handle things down the road. And you will still have your weekends free.
Ground school for the E-2 is shorter than the T-45 which was shorter than API.
And look at the increasing complexity in decreasing time. If I did not have a semi-solid background, I would be lost in the sauce here at the RAG.
Some of the IPs may argue that anyways, but at least I have a clue of WHAT the majic boxes are doing and what happens when I push and pull on things up in the cockpit.
If you can't handle API at twice the pace, you shouldn't be a Naval Aviator or NFO.
I partied my ass off in API and rocked it. Now, not so much. A harder, shorter 3 week API would be more telling of how you will handle things down the road. And you will still have your weekends free.
Joint Primary Air Training System (JPATS) was the contest held to decide the new primary trainer for the USAF and USN. Unless the term has been incorporated to mean something else, that is all it is.
JPATS
As far as it changing the way flight school is conducted or structured, I am not sure it will have that much impact, it is not a radical change from the T-34C. Bunk would be able to say more about the particulars.
The biggest impact of JPATS will be on API. JPATS is an Air Force-designed program, and the AF doesn't do API. Everything we teach in API is folded into Primary under JPATS, but as CBT's. There's some debate as to whether that's a good idea, and if you've ever had to do CBT's, you'll understand why. So the discussion now is whether to compress API, do away with API altogether (retaining Swim and Survival), or modify the curriculum to make it more JPATS-compatible.
None of these ideas is a perfect solution, so for now: ops normal.
None of these ideas is a perfect solution, so for now: ops normal.