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FPC is typically done through a posting. It’ll depend on the duration of training,
The RCAF's Next Generation Fighter (CF-188 Replacement)
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Is there any US experience to inform whether ab initio or conversion training takes longer? I wonder if breaking old habits might take longer than building from the ground up...
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8-9 months. But there is typically training on the Hawk in Cold Lake too beforehand (although we have been sending people at ENJJPT and FPC is their only stint in Cold Lake). Probably 1.5 years on the ground for someone who goes through 419 TF(T)S first. I know how many sorties are required for both the F-35 experienced fighter pilot course and the ab-initio fighter pilot course but I don’t know how it translate in calendar days.
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FPC=Fighter Pilot Camp?
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Hope its something like that. They don't have a good history of socially acceptable acronyms in callsigns...
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Fighter Pilot Course
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This has very much been rectified.
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“I’m Capt James Bloggins. Call sign ‘James Bloggins’”
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I thought it was... Bloggins, James. Acronym... ohhhh. Nevermind.
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"Bloggins" Is reserved for NCMs. Officers are "Smart" as in IM Smrt
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Back in the late '80s I was with 419 Sqn and in Feb the Sqn would down to Arizona for a couple weeks of training (once in El Paso and second time in Luke AFB). Arizona in Feb is like June in Canada, very pleasant. However, we were told by the locals that summers were very, very hot!
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Damn it. You've just triggered unpleasant memories of staff school.
"Pte Bloggins presented himself in front of the CSM ...."
"2Lt I.M.Smart has been tasked to conduct a Summary Investigation ..."
F35 Deal: Protests In Canada Over Payment Of $74 Billion For F-35 Fighters Instead Of 'Initially Agreed' $19B
Several months after Canada signed a deal with Lockheed Martin to purchase 88 F-35 Lightning II fighter jets, a Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) report has predicted severe price escalation that could cost the Canadian taxpayer billions of dollars more than was initially agreed upon. Spain...
www.eurasiantimes.com
I don't recall anybody really protesting per se...
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Let’s just say the Eurasian Times isn’t exactly Reuters-level reporting accuracy.F35 Deal: Protests In Canada Over Payment Of $74 Billion For F-35 Fighters Instead Of 'Initially Agreed' $19B
Several months after Canada signed a deal with Lockheed Martin to purchase 88 F-35 Lightning II fighter jets, a Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) report has predicted severe price escalation that could cost the Canadian taxpayer billions of dollars more than was initially agreed upon. Spain...
I don't recall anybody really protesting per se...
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And yet it's the "apparently not news" that shows up in my phone, with the "apparently not Google" search bar across the top
I didn't take it for accuracy, I just saw the article earlier so decided to post it for posting sake
...They also posted an article about how Guam & Hawaii are just now within strike range of the SU-57
So yeah, read them with a grain of salt and some healthy skepticism...
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Tough to stoke outrage when you inject common sense and facts.I thought CAD 70 - 74 billion over a 45 year life cycle is actually a good deal. The problem is that no one properly reports the breakdown of costs so that you can think it out properly.
