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Pilot application was, in my experience, largely pass-fail. If you passed ACS, and didn't red flag medical, history or the interview, you were in. The interview was, yeah, a yes-no rubber stamp. If you rocked ACS, I wouldn't worry. Save that for training, cause you'll be there soon enough.

We're sending fewer people jets right now, cause 410 needs YFR to train instructors. The problem there is not with NFTC. We're also only sending IPs and ENJJPT grads on the fighter course, trying to keep the quality as high as possible (so, Ph III grads either go to ENJJPT or instruct for a...

Needs flight suits on the RCAF side. Not that anyone understands flight suit dress regs.

Looking at the production end of things: anything we do to get above 115 new wings grads per year needs money, potentially a lot of it. From a Moose Jaw level, we’re at max capacity. If they wanted to boost it, we’d need more planes (and so more instructors and maintainers), more sims (one’s...

In the terms Boyd used, yes. The Raptor has a higher thrust-to-weight ratio, and lower wing loading (both loaded and unloaded). This gets starker at max weight, as the F-16 is saddled with draggy external stores, while the F-22 is not. Outside his terms, also yes. Between the black magic of...

I'm going to preface this with the usual warning. I've got less time in than my boots, E&OE. To my understanding, the USAF wants combat time on the F-22s; they don't care how they get it. Makes sense to my mind, combat is something that you can't fully emulate stateside. It wouldn't make...

So, 360 less 318 is 42, which is 7 minutes. 53 minutes. 328 is 40 8s, and another 8. 41 minutes. Combine multiplying, dividing, adding, and subtracting to break down a speed into minutes and back up into hours. Be fluent doing arithmetic with the factors of 60 (1,2,3,4,6,10,15,20,30,60). I...

You're too kind ;) Despite what the big mean flight instructor says, you fly pretty well. ...I renege on my earlier comment. You're well qualified for internet arguments.

For hard stats, D Air Pers Strat had a spreadsheet predicting about 35% attrition end-to-end. 5% Phase 3, 5-10% Phase 2, 15-25% Phase 1, 5% other sources (these may have been recourse rates). Those are derived from some predictive model, not actual historical data (they had that, too, but this...

Let me rephrase that: we don't spend 4 years with RMC-esque restrictions, nor do we have the same structure. No obstacle courses, parade, drill competitions, or special uniforms. No FYOps, and no rings. There's nothing in this program designed around "producing leadership" explicitly. However...

Given the interest and confusion on the Seneca program in the RMC Jeans Debacle thread, I figured I'd summarize what I know over here. Fair warning, I'm a 1st Year, and a 2Lt. My knowledge, experience, and seniority are all heavily limited. [list type=decimal] What is the Seneca Program? The...

Seneca pilots finish with a Bachelor's. A made up one, but you can still do a master's with it. We're certainly less steeped in (edit: formal) discipline and leadership than the RMC guys (but so are the DEOs), and you won't find us on punishment parades for wearing jeans.

I'm having the opposite problem in Toronto. Lines! 25 minutes for groceries. Traffic! 30 minutes each way minimum. Strangers everywhere; haughty, busy people. People busy doing the rat race in their God damn leased Mercedes turning right on pedestrians. Redneckville? Sounds like home, sign me...

Man, fighters is an instant thread derail button  ::) For ACSOs, aren't they also backseaters in the Alpha Jet at 414?

The DPRK military is frozen in time, but they’re huuuge. In a sense, they’ve got the mass, cohesion, and artillery support of a WWI army, combined with early Cold War era gear. They also have a comprehensive IADS (integrated air defence system- radar, IR, and kinetic weapons with a centeralized...

I'll do that. Right now, I still can't believe I get to fly the Harvard (1250hp, bubble canopy...it's basically a WWII prop fighter), much less do IF, nav, and form with it. And that's just Ph. 2! Thanks G2G :)

I'm one of the Seneca mystery men, doing the first academic year. Phase 2 starts next summer. Things have been great, honestly; I'm living the dream. The community and culture (my poor liver) is awesome, Phase 1 rocked, even NDHQ was more fun than not. (Gimme ten years and I'll be a bitter...

Basically, we crush your dreams earlier now. The pass rate for CAPSS was around 50-60%, and the pass rate on Phase I during that time period was around 50% as well. Nowadays the pass rate for pilot on ACS is around 1/5, and the pass rate on Phase I is canonically 85% (and in my observation...

I respectfully disagree. Tanks can and will shrug off hits from other tanks. M1A1s whacked each-other in the face with Silver Bullets a few times, no damage. That was during the Gulf War, before they had the DU armour, or the ERA. How'd they survive firepower of that magnitude? Composite armour...

Couple of points: 1. Apparently, Runway 28L was closed. In the dark, the runway could look like the left runway, the taxiway then being confused for the right runway. Particularly at SFO, where the runways are a mere 750 ft. apart (vs. 5000ft at Vancouver, or even 1500 ft. here in Portage). 2...