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[CommodoreMid]

To add...you're budgeted 50 days to complete the IFS syllabus. Some people take 49 days, some people (like me) finish in 17. It's not really an at-your-own-pace thing, its just how much your instructor can fly you, weather, other students that need to be pushed through, etc. Its the same curriculum (FAR Part 151, if you're interested) but the amount of time it actually takes varies widely.

Time waivers are possible, however. I started IFS 3NOV and finished 7JAN because of Christmas/tons of days of crappy weather.

 

[HighDimension]

To add...you're budgeted 50 days to complete the IFS syllabus. Some people take 49 days, some people (like me) finish in 17. It's not really an at-your-own-pace thing, its just how much your instructor can fly you, weather, other students that need to be pushed through, etc. Its the same curriculum (FAR Part 151, if you're interested) but the amount of time it actually takes varies widely.

I googled Part 151 and it dealt with federal aid to airports, do you mean Part 141?

 

[MIDNJAC]

I googled Part 151 and it dealt with federal aid to airports, do you mean Part 141?

I google part 142 and it said something about lower minimums and just general incompetence

 

[HighDimension]

I google part 142 and it said something about lower minimums and just general incompetence

Wow, I'm just impressed you knew about that. +1

 

[desertoasis]

I googled Part 151 and it dealt with federal aid to airports, do you mean Part 141?

Right, Part 141. My bad... *facepalm*

It's been a long week.

 

[dimlight85]

According to the Commodore, with the addition of a multi-crew sim coming, eventually pretty much all SNFO's will wing at TRAWING6 before going to their prospective FRS. This means that the guys picked up for P-3's and E-6's will stay and do some sort of intermediate and advanced training as well.

...so I hear.

 

[Uncle Fester]

According to the Commodore, with the addition of a multi-crew sim coming, eventually pretty much all SNFO's will wing at TRAWING6 before going to their prospective FRS. This means that the guys picked up for P-3's and E-6's will stay and do some sort of intermediate and advanced training as well.

...so I hear.

Huh? Unless they're building an E-2 back end WST as well, I can't see the VAW community going for this. Then again, I'm kinda out of that loop nowadays.

Personally, I always felt that the E-2 selectees should continue on to -86, at least for the A-A syllabus. Practical considerations of money, student loads, T-39/T-45 hours, etc, aside, it seemed like having spent some hours running an intercept from the back seat of a jet and trying to translate bogey dope into the soda-straw picture in front of you, could not help but make you a better AIC.

 

[cfam]

Huh? Unless they're building an E-2 back end WST as well, I can't see the VAW community going for this. Then again, I'm kinda out of that loop nowadays.

Based on what i heard at the conference, the multi-crew sim/the mini-rag syllabus here seemed to only be a big wing thing, not for E-2s. It was basically a big wing replacement for the intermediate syllabus the tailhook guys do now.