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Mucky Fother Luckers

Gatordev

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NSS was around with the legacy grading system long before 2000. MPTS started FY2000, which defined and standardized the actual grading criteria and changed the form of grading (among a bunch of other stuff found in that thread).
 

Griz882

Frightening children with the Griz-O-Copter!
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Looking back, I don’t think I ever thought about my NSS, ever. If I finished a flight and no one said, “Do that over, idiot.” Or “Man, what were you thinking?” then I was doing OK. I knew, almost immediately, when I fucked up and I worked to fix the failure. When primary was over no one told us our “grades,” they gave us the choice to rank jets, helicopters, and multi-engine and we got one. I will say one thing was certain - the instructors knew my strengths (good monkey skills) and weaknesses (slow learner on instrument stuff) better than I did.
 

CommodoreMid

Whateva! I do what I want!
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I never even saw what my NSS was. On the day of primary graduation one of the instructors walked in, told us what aircraft we got, and left.
 

sevenhelmet

Quaint ideas from yesteryear
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I never even saw what my NSS was. On the day of primary graduation one of the instructors walked in, told us what aircraft we got, and left.

Same. We weren’t even in the room for ours. Filled out our “dream sheets” and left. I finally got a phone call from stucon around 8pm. Wasn’t even sure I was going to Kingsville until I asked, “Where is TW2 based?”, like the FNG that I was…
 

elariosa95

SNA (Corpus-bound)
The only reason I disagree is because I knew a SNA who lived in the sim. He had more sim hours and study time than reserve instructors had in their fleet aircraft. He literally taught me to do the entire contacts that I got 5s and the fact he wasn’t even close to 50 was indicative of the squadron’s MIF monsters getting scheduled with him a few too many times. He deserves strike from a work ethic perspective as well. I can say from studying with him, he knew the T6 more than I ever did yet it’s some bad luck with timing and IPs that landed him Helos.
BLUF: you make your own luck, but the flight school gods do have a say

I got scheduled to go on a Forms CCX to finish out primary. I flew wing with one of the tougher graders in our squadron (super nice guy tho), while my partner was lead with an instructor who was a notorious hammer, not just in our squadron but throughout TW5 (skipper had multiple complaints about him). The entire weekend was a nightmare in terms of flight planning and the overall flying, with both being affected by the bad weather. When we returned, the weather didn't improve much and we flew our last two flights with non-standard profiles. Mad props to my partner for staying locked in just long enough to get us through. Overall, we had a bad experience with what is supposed to be a pretty fun part of primary

When I got my NSS, I was disappointed, not necessarily bc of my performance throughout primary, but bc of how much those last 5 flights affected the final score. I spent the better part of the rest of that week wondering about what could've been if we hadn't been scheduled to do the entire forms syllabus in one weekend, if we had more time to chair fly/nail the brief, etc.

That being said, my partner and I ended up selecting our second choice so we couldn't be too upset. I'm pretty happy with what I got, and I'm excited to move on
 
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