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Yup, press with the toes to brake.  Left and right brakes are controlled separately, works really nice. Wiener, don't worry if the yoke and pedals only get there at the last second and you don't get the chance to use it much before acs.  From what I heard this kind of thing will be handy to...

I'm a pilot applicant too, waiting to go to acs hopefully sometime after the new year.  I don't have any real flying experience so I've been focusing my training on MS flight simulator too.  One thing I did that has worked really well is to buy a usb yoke and pedals on ebay.  If you search for...

Actually they'll be a lot less expensive and their reliability will be comperable.  A UCAV is projected to cost around $18 million, whereas a JSF will cost $50+ million. There's a good article on this stuff here (link courtesy Infanteer in another thread)...

Dropped off the paper work today.  I talked with a cpl there about it and he gave me more or less the same advice. He said that if I don't get through acs that they'll give me a chance to chose another trade later anyway, so for now it's easier to only put pilot and keep things simple.  The...

Thanks for the input guys.  Guess I'll push through a pilot only application for now and keep getting ready for acs. And you're right kincanucks, obviously I haven't been loaded onto iap/botc yet.  September 06 is what I'm expecting since I've already missed the board for the january course...

As part of my transfer from reserve to reg force I have to submit choices of occupations I want to apply for.  Right now my list is pilot, infantry and artillary.  I was wondering, if I pass aircrew selection is there any chance they wouldn't offer me pilot and give me infantry or artillary...

I was talking to a griffon pilot a couple of months ago who was telling me that he thinks the 18s will be our last manned fighters.  My own background is in software engineering and AI and from that point of view the technology is certainly getting close to being there.  It would also suit the...

I'm guessing MoDawg meant "if anyone still cares about our army" We had a recruiter who's first line was "Want to make $5000 this summer?" and that would usually get the attention of the high school kids.  Some people might argue you're drawing in the wrong type of recruit that way, but I'm not...

Assuming you've been inactive for a while, you want to start slow, at least for the first 3 weeks or so.  Don't push yourself too hard until your body's used to it.  You don't want to start reaching muscle exhaustion early on or you'll injure yourself (muscle exhaustion is when you get to the...

I agree that a lot of the application process is too slow.  I submitted my component transfer to go from nav res to air force reg about 2 weeks ago.  I was told that the paper work isn't going to go through in time for me to make the october board so I won't be able to do botc until september...

I did bmq with the naval reserves about a year and a half ago, so I'm not combat arms but I thought I'd take a shot at answering this. All the training you get, the endless step-by-step repetition is done so that when the s*** hits the fan your training will kick in and you'll know what to do...

Naval reserve for 2 years.  Going reg (hopefully) as a pilot.  Waiting for paperwork and acs.

Thanks Joe Blow, that looks like exactly the kind of thing I was trying to find  :salute: Anyone have some stories about things that caught them off guard about combat arms after they joined?  Things they weren't expecting, that kind of stuff?  Thanks.

I've been with the naval reserves for 2 years now as an ncm and am working on transfering to the reg force to be an af pilot.  The transfer gives you the choice of 3 trades and I know the pass rate for aircrew selection isn't something to take for granted so I've been putting a lot of thought...