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Like the other guys (who are actual experienced aircrew) have said, the government doesn't play games like that. Moreover, all of your files are long gone, so there's no record of your previous application - clean slate. That said, there is a zero percent chance you would have made it through...

So are you going to university after you finish BMOQ? You need to contact the PSO shop on the base who will set you up with the University Liaison Office, because that's where you're posted (well, technically to your school but all your admin goes through the PSO). You won't be living on base so...

I recently got the answer regarding any assumed medical restrictions back from AUMB and I officially have no restrictions on the type of aircraft I can fly. Still anecdotal but there's no guessing involved anymore, for me at least.

An allowance created to normalize cost of living differential across different postings and therefore to be inserted into your budget. Functionally identical to salary. It would be tragi-hilarious if it were cut to see the hundreds of families rendered homeless in Victoria alone. You thought the...

Post Living Differential could result in different apparent salaries for folks at different schools - someone attending University of Toronto could be grossing $1000 or so more a month than someone at RMC. It's not "salary" though, but an allowance. Not that it matters on payday. I might be a...

Pilot is the largest officer occupation group in the air force by a wide margin, and is the second largest in the CF (or maybe the largest? Don't have the PML numbers here right now).  It would be normal to have what looks like a lot of recruits.  The flying training system has a very limited...

Why not, I have not personally done one of these posts yet... It's not "free," because while you don't pay tuition and receive a (very small) salary, in the end you owe a certain number of years of service (typically 5) in return.  And as a pilot you owe a further seven years after achieving...

Those numbers aren't drastically lower than the past few years.  In fact the numbers for my occupation match exactly the year I got picked up (two years ago).  It's a highly competitive, expensive-for-the-CF program.

Nothing like that in my med file, and I've also asked my doc outright and she said I have no restrictions.  I have also not seen anything to that effect in any of the medical standards and policy documents I've looked at, but of course that list isn't exhaustive.  So, I'm working under the...

Yes I mean CFR, but bear in mind that most folks quit, or develop terrible attitudes that make them poor CFR candidates long before being able to.  And you correctly guess that it's going to be easier to come in directly as an officer after some resume boosting than bet on some sort of CFR...

I wrote up a big reply but kept going on tangents so here it is in sum: you would not enjoy being an NCIOP.  You do plenty of hands-on as a junior combat operator, which is to say the first half decade-plus of your career.  You're a "sailor first" as it says everywhere, which means cleaning...

Wrong?  Around 2008 the average age of new entry pilots was 32 and looking at my fellow OJTs it's not any different a few years later.  In fact, hiring is probably opposite to what you think, the older you are (i.e. more life experience) the better candidate you present for the recruiter.  So...

The mbr still keeps their NCM pay level as a CEO until such time as the officer pay catches up, do they not?  The reasoning would be the same, in my opinion.  I'm not on a DWAN station so am unable to check the CFAO and CBI. Blackadder below may have a point, however (I was substantive).

I was promoted to PO2 from MS the day before I put on my OCdt slip-ons, so I spent less than 24hrs in my new rank.  The only time I signed something as a P2 was when I picked up some more OCdt slip-ons from stores.  I'm not, however, privy to the exact process that made it happen - I mentioned...

Gotcha, makes sense.

As a currently serving NCM you keep your current pay (including spec pay if applicable) with yearly incentives, until such time as officer pay catches up.  If you have done PLQ, you skip BMOQ entirely.  If you have not, you only join for the later portion.  UTPNCM no longer sends students to...

I agree it would be an interesting approach but being as pilot is the largest officer occupation in the AF and almost all of them have come up through the traditional system, it would require huge amounts of force feeding and understanding in more or less equal measure.  It would be pissing in a...

To be fair, the UTP selections last year were really pretty messed up and I could see the process leaving a bad taste.  My situation was very similar but I got picked for civy u so have no complaints (I love it, actually - highly recommended) now that I'm actually in the program.  Neither of...

At my session they did not re-test acuity, although we were presented with a list of what they were going to do and it was on there.  There were a few things on the list that didn't get done, in fact.  Your idea of the eye tests is pretty much what happened, plus a test for brightness contrast...

I would suspect that the intakes (especially the initial ones) will be tiny, on the order of 5 people or less, so I doubt there would be any impact.  I base that on the size of the NCM-SEP programs running at colleges, which seem to be the closest analog to this program. Having seen the PML vs...