EVERYONE does airways nav ... unless you stay at home on the weekends. 
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I know.....and you missed the point.Fly Navy said:
mike172 said:
It doesn't matter, the Navy is beginning to realize everyone wants to fly jets and so they are beginning to phase out everything that is non-jetlike. Within a couple years the answer to "What % get jets" will be 100% .
edit: This was discussed before so I attempted to search for it. I was amazing at how many topics were titled " helo --> jets , rotary to fixed , Help what if I get helos , platform transitions, etc. " I think a helo slot would be awesome, especially if you get into one of those combat squadrons ( HS or HC ? )
Brett327 said:
Hrmm... the pilots over here need to do a certain number of approaches every year to keep their cloud card, something like 12 and 6...
squorch2 said:
haha if the Navy is crazy enough to give me a flight spot then I'll fly whatever. At least we don't have to worry about selecting predator drones yet :icon_mi_1
Check out OPNAVINST 3710.7T (unless amended since 2004) , Chapter 13 ....TurnandBurn55 said:
http://neds.daps.dla.mil/Directives/3710/thirteen.pdf
Now that you mention it, they do have that approach requirement, but it's nothing like the civilian stuff. I can't see, or ever remember a case where someone didn't just get the required stuff done as a result of doing normal flight ops - probably why it slipped my mind.TurnandBurn55 said:
Brett
Brett327 said:
It's probably easier when you have a CCA available, but for those of us less endowed, there have been times when you have to have a training hop that is very heavy on PARs. This flight is usually a day or two before the actual checkride, if you know what I mean. Go Ops.
@mike172:
Can't speak for all helos, but for HSL, it would be roughly 40-50 hours when things are hot and heavy in the middle of a deployment. Generally, you'll put around 150 hours a month on the birds, and each is limited to 80 hours each. These numbers are for 3 crews (two pilots each crew) and two aircraft. Obviously, like everything else, it varies w/ time.
Do you guys have to under go flight reviews every two years like civilian pilots? Also, I was curious if you have heard of a "visual approach" in a jet, I hear jet drivers say they are "on the visual for runway x". It seems to me that in a jet you would have to go out to the Final Approach Fix for the runway and shoot a semi-visual/instrument approach to get a high performance jet configured in a stabilized descent for landing.
Any plane can for that matterFly Navy said: