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How often do people fail this pipeline during the human centrifuge training? Also, how often do people fail flight training in general?

The worst part of the ‘fuge was the coriolis effect. I had the spins for a good half hour after I got out of the pod.

Fortunately, raging with my buddies in San Antonio the night before was good practice. ;)

Yeah, that was definitely true. Kinda like your first day ashore after being underway for a while. Different mechanism, but I’ve seen a lot of people get real uncomfortable taxiing in level D sims/FFS due to the movements involved. I’d submit they would probably also barf their lunch and then black out in our ‘fuge :)
 
Yeah, that was definitely true. Kinda like your first day ashore after being underway for a while. Different mechanism, but I’ve seen a lot of people get real uncomfortable taxiing in level D sims/FFS due to the movements involved. I’d submit they would probably also barf their lunch and then black out in our ‘fuge :)
I feel like spatial D/motion sickness in the sim is a real thing with taxiing. Nothing like getting thrown back in the seat in the sim when you are going 2-5 knots since you just made breakaway thrust. It is maybe a little better if you are in the left seat since you have the tiller and throttles, but still noticeable nonetheless.
 
I feel like spatial D/motion sickness in the sim is a real thing with taxiing. Nothing like getting thrown back in the seat in the sim when you are going 2-5 knots since you just made breakaway thrust. It is maybe a little better if you are in the left seat since you have the tiller and throttles, but still noticeable nonetheless.
Why are you looking outside in the sim? In my experience, they solve that by keeping us IMC the whole freakin' time. ;)
 
Holy crap, think I might have went through it with you. It was his second time trying it, and like you said good dude went to airlines. Roughly early-mid 2011?

It’s not something to stress about, most have minimal troubles. Tall lanky cross country runners with low blood pressure have the most difficulties.
I do not tic any of those boxes so I think I am good haha
 
I did it a second time as a requirement to fly the F-16 during my shore tour. It was a 9G profile this time. Done first, while all the prospective T-45 students looked on. I'd gotten our PR's in Fallon to really tighten up my G suit, and me and my bud went out raging in San Antonio the night before and ate a breakfast of chik fil a. There's part of the profile where you are at 9G for 15 seconds, looking over your shoulder. That one hurt. As I spun down to a stop afterward, the operator commented "sir, I think you were just in survival mode there.......were you holding your breath?" It wasn't pretty, but I didn't fail that one just like I didn't fail the flight school ride. The T-45 students had some real wide eyes as I walked back into the lounge room though. If you end up selecting jets, don't stress. You'll be fine in the 'fuge. A few people have to go through a second time, but it's not that big of a deal.
Ok for sure thank you
 
It’s pretty uncommon man, at the centrifuge you just have to not pass out, you have a couple of tries on the same profile before they send you home to talk to your command then they’ll make the decision to send you back, and how many more tries.

Even if your g tolerance sucks there, it gets better in the plane when you’re doing it regularly. Also, the T-45 doesn’t have the onset rate AND bleeds off faster. You’ll get some practice in the T-6 too. If you’re going to have some pretty serious airsickness issues it’s usually found in the T-6 and a lot of people get over it and go on to select strike.

To echo what everyone is saying above, don’t worry about it, worry about what you can control and the closest alligator to the boat. If you’re waiting on a pro-rec, improve your package, waiting on OCS, study appendix B, waiting on NIFE, study the academics, etc. etc.

The attrition rate isn’t zero but it’s not very high after especially after NIFE, and it typically gets lower the farther in your pipeline you get (they’ve invested more in you).

Good luck man!
For sure man thank you
 
BLUF: "focus on the closest alligator to the boat, but don't forget about the others"

Like mentioned above, just focus on everything you can control, and take it from there.

In the interest of answering your question, your priority list right now should look something like this:
  1. Preparing for/scoring well on ASTB
  2. Getting in shape/studying for OCS
  3. Surviving the sand pits in Newport
  4. Flight school
Attrition for academics during OCS/flight school doesn't happen often and is really unfortunate, but if you keep your head in the books and study with others, you'll be ok. The firehose method is the DOD's preferred method of training, but there are ways to make it a little more bearable ("learning objectives").

The biggest thing about OCS is staying locked in and not letting your guard down or getting complacent. Indoc phase was easily the toughest part of OCS bc of how many people around me were slowly starting to realize they weren't cut out for the military or were just in the pit of despair for various reasons. Like other military trainings, it's tough but doable. Focus on making it to the next chow, and you'll be alright

Lastly, to address your concerns about G's: during the Contacts stage of Primary, the first thing you'll do before starting any high work is a G-warm exercise (Gx): a 4-5 G pull at 70-80 deg AOB and 3-5 breath cycles. If you can do that on the first flight without puking into an airsickness bag, you'll be just fine; if not, you'll do some airsickness stuff with the AS coordinator for your squadron to get you acclimated (you might even get the Airsickness Weapons School patch lol). During formation flying, your instructor may demonstrate the tail chase which can go up to 6 G's; I never got to do this, but my roommate said it was awesome
I am currently on step 2 so definitely got some work to do. Thank you for some insight on handling g forces.
 
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