New Aircraft Pilots

[Brett327]

Agree with Brett's emphatic YES! on this ...

BUT: to my surprise, my "sources" are telling me the P-8 will NOT be NUW based ... going to Mugu instead ... ???? If so ... politics rule, once again.

No P-8 in NUW ??? Going to be lots of Whidbey teeth-gnashing over that one, if true.

You mean the P-8 won't be able to continue the P-3's longstanding tradition of knocking the short-field gear out of battery every 10 minutes? What ever will we do with all that extra free time in our day?

Brett

 

[A4sForever]

You mean the P-8 won't be able to continue the P-3's longstanding tradition of knocking the short-field gear out of battery every 10 minutes? What ever will we do with all that extra free time in our day?

Brett

How about .... close Lemoore and bring the Fleet Air arm back to NUW, in spades ???

Only in my dreams ....

 

[Goober]

Oh, great. So we get the joy of having the gear knocked out of battery... Bad enough w/ the CA ANG C-130s there at Channel Islands...

It's a conspiracy. And besides, they'll have to build a new TSC there (ASWOC for you old schoolers). The MOCC was there, but couldn't tell you if it's still there or not since VP-65 went away.

 

[blackjack_rj]

It's not due to hit the fleet for another 2-3 years, but we already have a cadre of Prowler aircrew that have gone through the SH RAG and are readying the program for the first squadron to convert over. There will essentially be two tracks within VAQ-129 (Prowler RAG) - one for each aircraft, since we'll continue to fly some Prowlers until ~2015. Those going to G squadrons will spend some time down in Lemoore at VFA-122 (SH RAG) to learn to fly the new jet, then come back to Whidbey for the systems/tactical portion of the syllabus. I suspect that new studs won't know what platform they're getting until they show up at 129.

Brett

I see. Thanks for all your help, Brett.