shortages
>>this won't be effecting FOs. Mainly, because we are in such short supply.
Everything old is new again. When I got to my first squadron, VP-1, there were 16 crews and 15 NFOs. Each NFO had to fly both TACCO and NAV simultaneously. Now THAT's busy, esp. in the old baseline P-3Bs, which had P-2 nav systems that didn't work. The third pilot nominally sat NAV, but because he wasn't trained, and because he hated sitting NAV, he was worthless, so the real NFO had to do both jobs. Plus it was tiring listening to the 3P/NAV ***** and whine for 11 hours at a time.
With the end of VF and VA NFO seats, the end of VS, and having grounded 150 P-3Cs for airframe decay in the past two years, I suspect there is little likelihood of an NFO shortage any time soon. Finally, the DOD is planning to have 1/3 of the entire military air fleet unmanned within the next six to eight years.
http://navlog.org/unmanned.html
>>this won't be effecting FOs. Mainly, because we are in such short supply.
Everything old is new again. When I got to my first squadron, VP-1, there were 16 crews and 15 NFOs. Each NFO had to fly both TACCO and NAV simultaneously. Now THAT's busy, esp. in the old baseline P-3Bs, which had P-2 nav systems that didn't work. The third pilot nominally sat NAV, but because he wasn't trained, and because he hated sitting NAV, he was worthless, so the real NFO had to do both jobs. Plus it was tiring listening to the 3P/NAV ***** and whine for 11 hours at a time.
With the end of VF and VA NFO seats, the end of VS, and having grounded 150 P-3Cs for airframe decay in the past two years, I suspect there is little likelihood of an NFO shortage any time soon. Finally, the DOD is planning to have 1/3 of the entire military air fleet unmanned within the next six to eight years.
http://navlog.org/unmanned.html
i dunno about that round of beers anymore kycntry
