Involuntary extensions

[Pags]

Have you looked at going USNR VFA/Cs as a SELRES to pick up O4 and keep the tactical jet time going? Not sure if the transition would be any easier from USMC to USNR vice AFR/ANG.

 

[Treetop Flyer]

Unless you have kept your time in a civilian log book using civilian logging conventions, be careful of assuming a .3 multiplier. Make sure the airline app ask you to apply it. Some want your straight military time.

Airlines don't give a shit about ASO, PMCF, Division Lead, etc. They care about total time and PIC time. IP time might be a tie breaker at best.

Major airlines like 121 time, not ISR time. You will get to a major a lot quicker/easier if you have 121 time than you will with ISR time. Also, King Air versus RJ? Hands down RJ wins, especially if you didn't fly multi-crew heavies. Further, seniority is everything. Getting to a major the quickest gets you the best seniority,

It's your life but I know more than a few former military that had the same plan as you. They're still flying ISR while those that went regionals are not flying at The Show. True some ISR guys get there quickly, but they are more likely to be heavy multi-engine, multi-crew rather than pointy nose pilots.

I applied pretty much everywhere (but not Hawaiian) and every app asked specifically about ASO, so I imagine they find some value there.

 

[BarrettRC8]

If Barrett was rubbing elbow with these dudes at the bar like he says he was...I’m pretty sure a couple of well written letters and recommendations along their chain of command would be pretty easy to acquire. Especially when the 2P reason was most likely because of something stupid like a picture or PME.

It was PME, no other issues. That being said I have a Master’s degree and completed AF PME last Winter. I’m not spending two years of my weekends doing EWS that has nothing to do with my job when I only get to fly five or six sorties a month.

 

[Flash]

Most states' ANG CoS is a 2 star- they don't have enough people to rate a 3 star, and therefore don't have someone with the authority to grant the waiver. That's AF/ANG bureaucracy at it's finest.

I'm pretty sure no state has a federally recognized Lieutenant General. The max federal rank a state Adjutant General can attain is Major General, the few that are Lieutenant Generals are not federally recognized as such which means they really aren't Lieutenant Generals. I'm pretty sure the only federally recognized National Guard General and Lieutenant General are the Chief and Vice Chief of the National Guard Bureau, so if a 'three-star' actually has to sign off on a waiver it would have to go to the National Guard Bureau unless the USAF is somehow involved.

 

[Hotdogs]

I’m not spending two years of my weekends doing EWS

Man you did the wrong EWS program. Seriously man.... Weekends?

Half of it is online, which took me around 2 months when I was bored at work. The second half was seminar one day a week with a couple written papers thrown in there. Usually the command gave us the time off to goto the class. I think it took me 1-1.5 years to complete and didn’t spend any time on the weekends, a couple weeks during the summer and winter off for the holidays, and reading it on duty when I had time.

I get it though...don’t invest your time in an institution that doesn’t invest in you. I flew 15-30 hours a month in the fleet, and if I didn’t I would be especially bitter about it as well.

 

[BarrettRC8]

Man you did the wrong EWS program. Seriously man.... Weekends?

Half of it is online, which took me around 2 months when I was bored at work. The second half was seminar one day a week with a couple written papers thrown in there. Usually the command gave us the time off to goto the class. I think it took me 1-1.5 years to complete and didn’t spend any time on the weekends, a couple weeks during the summer and winter off for the holidays, and reading it on duty when I had time.

I get it though...don’t invest your time in an institution that doesn’t invest in you. I flew 15-30 hours a month in the fleet, and if I didn’t I would be especially bitter about it as well.

When we're working 11-12 hours a day M-F and occasionally on Saturdays, when else are guys going to do it? I'd like to spend at least a couple hours with my wife during the week. That being said, if I flew that much I'd have had no issues finding the time. Glad you got to fly a lot.

My buddy is doing it now and says it requires 1.5 hours of reading/homework a night.

 

[Swanee]

When we're working 11-12 hours a day M-F and occasionally on Saturdays, when else are guys going to do it? I'd like to spend at least a couple hours with my wife during the week. That being said, if I flew that much I'd have had no issues finding the time. Glad you got to fly a lot.

My buddy is doing it now and says it requires 1.5 hours of reading/homework a night.

It's only a lot of reading if you do it!!

I did it through the blended seminar program. Talk about a good deal all around.

 

[Treetop Flyer]

I did half of it one night a week in Yuma (Harrierdude was the instructor) and half online. They said online wasn’t an option but it could still be done. I’d log on about 20 minutes before the weekly deadline, find a couple of the other students submissions that seemed the least stupid, plagiarized a bit from each, and hit submit. It was literally less than an hour of work per week.

 

[HAL Pilot]

When we're working 11-12 hours a day M-F and occasionally on Saturdays, when else are guys going to do it? I'd like to spend at least a couple hours with my wife during the week.

That's the management in addition to flying phrogdriver says will give you more job satisfaction...