Summary of NFO flight school

[willwash]

If you want to sound extra cool like the fighter guys speak in the future tense about the stuff that happened in the past, ie, the flight you just flew

 

[sevenhelmet]

If you want to sound extra cool like the fighter guys speak in the future tense about the stuff that happened in the past, ie, the flight you just flew

I have wondered about this for YEARS, even though I accepted and adopted the practice myself while debriefing as a fighter pilot. But yeah, it's pretty goofy.

Anyone know where it came from?

 

[willwash]

I have wondered about this for YEARS, even though I accepted and adopted the practice myself while debriefing as a fighter pilot. But yeah, it's pretty goofy.

Anyone know where it came from?

My first mission brief/ debrief as an E-2 NFO with the fighter guys I was left alone and unafraid by my squadron. I was wholly unprepared for the experience. The first time as an outsider when you see the lucky junior pilot who gets to recite his OCF recovery procedures to the briefing room, you know you have entered a fundamentally different world. The future tense stuff in the debrief just seems to be part of the same package. It’s goofy but you guys make it sound cool.

Just a lot of “isms” in the fighter community.

What got me most was how long it all takes. Gotta maximize the training value of every precious flight hour I guess, but a 2 hour brief followed by a 3 hour debrief, then afte Screwtop leaves I guess you debrief more, for a 20 minute 2 v 4 SES, it just seems…a lot

 

[sevenhelmet]

My first mission brief/ debrief as an E-2 NFO with the fighter guys I was left alone and unafraid by my squadron. I was wholly unprepared for the experience. The first time as an outsider when you see the lucky junior pilot who gets to recite his OCF recovery procedures to the briefing room, you know you have entered a fundamentally different world. The future tense stuff in the debrief just seems to be part of the same package. It’s goofy but you guys make it sound cool.

Just a lot of “isms” in the fighter community.

What got me most was how long it all takes. Gotta maximize the training value of every precious flight hour I guess, but a 2 hour brief followed by a 3 hour debrief, then afte Screwtop leaves I guess you debrief more, for a 20 minute 2 v 4 SES, it just seems…a lot

It is a lot, and I frequently thought we went beyond the realm of "diminishing returns" in the fighter world, with regard to normal human attentiveness. Debriefing is a skill, and keeping it brief and effective is a harder skill.

 

[Pianistwithwings]

My first mission brief/ debrief as an E-2 NFO with the fighter guys I was left alone and unafraid by my squadron. I was wholly unprepared for the experience. The first time as an outsider when you see the lucky junior pilot who gets to recite his OCF recovery procedures to the briefing room, you know you have entered a fundamentally different world. The future tense stuff in the debrief just seems to be part of the same package. It’s goofy but you guys make it sound cool.

Just a lot of “isms” in the fighter community.

What got me most was how long it all takes. Gotta maximize the training value of every precious flight hour I guess, but a 2 hour brief followed by a 3 hour debrief, then afte Screwtop leaves I guess you debrief more, for a 20 minute 2 v 4 SES, it just seems…a lot

Still less than a 14 hour flight and 3 hours and 59 minutes of maintenance after landing.

 

[Mos]

The worst brief/debrief is USAF at Red Flag. ?

 

[Average Monke]

If you want to sound extra cool like the fighter guys speak in the future tense about the stuff that happened in the past, ie, the flight you just flew

What prompted your post on this thread after +3 years? ?

 

[willwash]

What prompted your post on this thread after +3 years? ?

I lurk AW occasionally and very rarely post. As you can see by my delayed response here.

 

[Waveoff]

By god he’s done it again