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What I've Learned in Flight Training
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OH God .... how I HATE SQUID !!! Not Squids (sailors) , mind you ... just SQUID -- as in Calamari, etc., etc. Even WITH Aioli sauce ... !!!
Rather than eat SQUID --- I would rather get really, really drunk and eat a BALUT !!! Mmmmm.... yummy !!
-He who has no friends has no gouge and will do poorly.
-People remember the @ssholes from flight school long after the fact and it doesnt work out too well for said named @sshole very often
-When they give you the look left and right one of you will be in a mishap speach they are not B*llsh!ting you!
-The biggest @sshole instructors were the weakest fleet pilots.
-Crosscountries are GOOD.
-Safety Standdowns suck BUT the night before a safety standdown rocks!
-Lots of people get married, very few wear wings, dont stay witha girl who doesnt support your dream.
-Oh and I learned some stuff about systems and numbers and procedures too.
-People remember the @ssholes from flight school long after the fact and it doesnt work out too well for said named @sshole very often
-When they give you the look left and right one of you will be in a mishap speach they are not B*llsh!ting you!
-The biggest @sshole instructors were the weakest fleet pilots.
-Crosscountries are GOOD.
-Safety Standdowns suck BUT the night before a safety standdown rocks!
-Lots of people get married, very few wear wings, dont stay witha girl who doesnt support your dream.
-Oh and I learned some stuff about systems and numbers and procedures too.
Well, since we are now talking "training-related" knowledge:
1. Don't ever try and figure out the Air Force. Just leave them be.
2. In the Navy, 0800 means 0815, not 0745.
3. The Navy civilian workday begins around 8-ish and ends precisely at 1529.
4. The phrase "Training Time Out" sounds silly.
5. Navy training commands actually provide commuting students with parking spots. What a concept.
6. PT can actually consist of fun sports (volleyball), not just mindless formation runs. (Well, I knew that from back in the *ahem* "Old Corps," but being in training commands for the past few years caused me to forget it.)
7. Classroom etiquitte - What is that again?
8. As a butterbar, never refer to an O-3 as "Sir" or "Ma'am." It is always "Hey L-T," or "Yo, Cap'n."
9. 11-year squids with wives and kids, trying to keep their NSS in the pilot range, make great study partners.
10. Yes, Virginia, you can stuff 55 officers into a room designed for 15.
1. Don't ever try and figure out the Air Force. Just leave them be.
2. In the Navy, 0800 means 0815, not 0745.
3. The Navy civilian workday begins around 8-ish and ends precisely at 1529.
4. The phrase "Training Time Out" sounds silly.
5. Navy training commands actually provide commuting students with parking spots. What a concept.
6. PT can actually consist of fun sports (volleyball), not just mindless formation runs. (Well, I knew that from back in the *ahem* "Old Corps," but being in training commands for the past few years caused me to forget it.)
7. Classroom etiquitte - What is that again?
8. As a butterbar, never refer to an O-3 as "Sir" or "Ma'am." It is always "Hey L-T," or "Yo, Cap'n."
9. 11-year squids with wives and kids, trying to keep their NSS in the pilot range, make great study partners.
10. Yes, Virginia, you can stuff 55 officers into a room designed for 15.
Non Training things I learned:
-Wingings are an economical way to support my alcoholism whether I know the wingees or not.
-Your "game" may have stagnated from under use (Pcola is just so easy) once you get to SoCal and have to work for it and being a drunk loud flight student will no longer get you laid as often.
-Apparently Allah aint in Pcola beacuase there will almost always be a drunk Saudi arround somewhere.
-Dont go anywhere near the New Orleans PD's horses!
-If a girl knows more about flight school than you do and isnt a student you will wake up with her in the morning.
-As many times as they tell you to enjoy flight school and any pool time you wont believe how true it was until you get to the fleet.
-Wingings are an economical way to support my alcoholism whether I know the wingees or not.
-Your "game" may have stagnated from under use (Pcola is just so easy) once you get to SoCal and have to work for it and being a drunk loud flight student will no longer get you laid as often.
-Apparently Allah aint in Pcola beacuase there will almost always be a drunk Saudi arround somewhere.
-Dont go anywhere near the New Orleans PD's horses!
-If a girl knows more about flight school than you do and isnt a student you will wake up with her in the morning.
-As many times as they tell you to enjoy flight school and any pool time you wont believe how true it was until you get to the fleet.
skidkid said:
It's been 9 years since I earned my wings but these three items you mentioned really hold true. I would like to expound on the a-hole portion if I may; so here it goes:
*Warning* Sea Story--
I will never forget the jackass who screwed me in primary, at the very end. He truly caused me to slip in ranking and because of him I ended up with E-2/C-2. On a particular flight, he gave me grades that I absolutely did not deserve. Being that primary is so competitive, even a small slip up can cause one to fall in the rankings. Believe me, in retrospect, I'm glad things turned out the way they did but at the time, I was an angry dude. Later on down the road, this instructor comes to our squadron to fly C-12's as an IP (VRC-30 used to be the west coast RAG for C-12's; a true composite squadron) and low/behold we end up working in the same office. I confront the said ******* and he apologizes, saying he was often a dick just to be a dick :icon_roll Unbelievable. The best part though was the night I was SDO and had to go pick him up from a certain base for getting arrested because of a DUI. He had just gotten hired by an airline and had a month to go before getting out. Oh, it gets better. He absolutely had to have me take him to his vehicle to get all his personal belongings from his car. So I make the big mistake of letting him have his keys so that he can get his stuff. Instead, he jumps in the car and takes off
The cops were watching, pulled him over, and again, within 4 hours, he is arrested for another DUI. I almost got in trouble as well (once again with this guy tried to screw me) but at least he acted like an adult and admitted to what he did. He later came to my house and apologized for what he did that night and what he did years before that in flight school. So I guess my point is what comes around goes around. Those *******s just may get what's coming to them in the end.
That's a good story Bunk, glad to see he got his in the end.
Anyone that is a dick just to be a dick has no right being an instructor. If you're being a dick for an educational purpose (and we all know there are plenty of opportunities for that and it's necessary) that's one thing, but to just be a dick because ... well for no good reason, you should just be fired.
Anyone that is a dick just to be a dick has no right being an instructor. If you're being a dick for an educational purpose (and we all know there are plenty of opportunities for that and it's necessary) that's one thing, but to just be a dick because ... well for no good reason, you should just be fired.
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