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Pretty sure it's all still there.... I heard Australia initially looked into full removal, and IIRC actually carried out whole removal program on a jet or 2, but turned out in practice and subsequent operation to be such a royal pain in a**, they they ended up doing what we did... retain but...

Sign me UP!! Real-life CPL (fixed-wing), Multi-IFR, recently applied for DEO pilot...  we'll see. BUT, if selected/accepted, I'd be honored to strap my butt into that beast and blast off into the always-friendly weather where rescues occur! Too new? Relatively untested? Dubious record...

Recruiting Center: Online Regular/Reserve: Regular Officer/NCM: Officer Trade Choice 1: Pilot Trade Choice 2: AEC Trade Choice 3: ??? Application Date: December 5, 2012 First Contact: December 17, 2012 - file txfrd Vancouver Aptitude Test: TBA Interview: TBA Medical: TBA Merit Listed: TBA...

Oboy, Puckchaser...  reading WAY too much into my post! lol  No, not/never telling anyone what is right/wrong or otherwise.  And G2G, glad to hear your bad days only occured when you had spares!  Yes, turbines are becoming crazy-reliable, to the benefit of us all! Myself, I've dealt with...

Hmmm....  Ok, so let's say reliability has improved. Turbines are inherently reliable, vs anything with reciprocating mass, and airline-style engines are reaching incredibly-low rates of failures. Kudos! However, military engines, and they way they are operated, are a different creature...

Educate me!!  I could be wrong, but... 1) Years back, I recall the federal NDP's lambasting the gov't about our light 'Jeeps' about the fuel system, and how it was incompatible with our allies on overseas deployment?  They were up in arms, and demanding that we get our crap together, and get...

I'm in the same boat... Applied Reg Force DEO Pilot back in '96. Did Interview, CFAT, medicals, etc, etc...  all good except at Opthamologist got mixed results...  Apparently laser auto-refractor results didn't agree with the ol' manual "spinning the wheels on your nose" results. Dr. told me...

Thank you gents...  Many good points, very well articulated. Had I known all this in my youth...  I still would failed out Pilot bcz of my vision, but likely would be fairly senior AEC officer at this point...

Primarily to Shamrock... Sorry you didn't care for my question... no intention of insulting anyone, just asking how this works, and perhaps why? I'm ALWAYS looking to learn something new, have no problem standing corrected, and most of all hate being misinformed...  Hence coming here, to the...

Hi y'all...  Am I reading this right? I was looking on the Forces.ca website at the payscales (Reg Force DEO officer  vs ROTP), and see something I can't make sense of, please help... I'm coming to the Forces with Science Degree in hand, paid outta my own pocket.  But I see the DEO pay is less...

Thanks, fellas! Good lord, no, french is NOT my first language...  but I pick up language pretty easy. Started learning Russian 'just for fun'! And wanting that seat?  Darn right!  As stated, already got CPL/M-IFR, but that only gets you so far...  read: poor pay, no fun. Fair enough that...

Read a few posts in here, and a couple of Blogs floating about out there that SUGGEST - but don't say definitively - that it MAY be possible to progress through the Pilot training steps a little faster... For example, after BMOQ, I've heard that *IF* "proficient" en francais, it's possible to...

No, Obedientwhateverguy...  NOT claiming this test isn't important whatsoever. Fitness *IS* important, especially in this line of work, and related ones (Fire-Rescue, SAR, Law Enforcement, etc). Just that all the back-n-forth, especially earlier in the thread, about the specifics of what...

Wow...  lotsa good input here. I'm an applicant, not an active member, but I do kinda know what I'm speaking about as a registered Kinesiologist with 15+ yrs experience.  (not 22, no yoga pants! lol) Bottom line, from what I've read in this whole post, is there's WAY too much fussin' going on...

GUYS...  Firstly, THANK YOU very sincerely for your replies...  even the snotty sarcastic parts!  Shows you read my whole post carefully, and took some time crafting a thoughtful reply. 1) Whew!  Relieved our Forces don't play silly games with the whole 'BS test' thing. 2) Still little...

Sorry to repeat same question...  but mine MAY be a li'l different. Way back in '96, fresh outta university, I applied for Aircrew via DEO  (yes, they had that way back when...).  Did all the testing, CFAT, panel interview, medical, opto, yadda-yadda...  was all enrolled, clearly recall the...