I assume Air Etcetera uses the same criteria as ACC on gradesheet where a ‘2’ is the standard for a student to meet and continue to meet.
Does your command require a line pilot ‘4’ as a pre-req for IPUG? In ACC, I thought that was a high standard but given the responsibility and speed at which things happen, I understood the rationale after going to teach at the FTU.
It takes a lot of experiences to truly understand how far you can let the student dork it up without bending metal or killing people. When I left the FTU, I walked away with a newfound respect for the FAIPs. I questioned that more and more the longer my career stretched.
Apologies in advance for those who don't speak usaf jive.
Click here to file a grievance. PMs kept throwing an error.
Anyhoo, undergraduate pilot training course training standards are graded on a different scale than the ops units/FTUs, but the stated intent is the same. It's a '4', where 4 is the standard, 2 is fail, and 5 is commendables. 3 is only a failure if they reach the end of the block and haven't made 4 on all required items. On the IP upgrade side, Formal evaluations for final aircraft follow standard big USAF 11-2MDS-Vol2 criteria: Q, Q-, U criteria for individual item, and Q1,2,3 for overall (FAA recognizable) checkride grade.
yes, the responsibility bestowed on these O-2 FAIP instructors at the undergraduate pilot training level is incredible. They're good kids, they tend to be upper third of their undergraduate class by defualt, and it's a fine line the service runs doing the bulk of this job with very young aviators; we've lost many of them too soon. It weighs heavy on us old heads, they didn't make it to old salty silverback like yours truly, and they should have.
Quality Standards of the PIT progam inbound candidates? Not near as high as they could be, but then again the service is not really in a position to be chooser when they treat their chattel the way they do, then get pikachu face when everybody runs to the major airlines. Meanwhile the end customers cry bloody murder because "quality is down", but refuse to put their money where their mouth is and pay some of the training command bill with tributes of their own. You know, those big bad MWS guys that could presumably do a better job, if we are to take their inflated sense of worth at face value. Aaaaand crickets. Thought so. Not a long line of people willing to go break rock in district 12, if you catch my drift.
As I said, I live in the world of what things are, not the one of what things should be. We do the best with what we got. It's not the best of what we could get, but that's due to congressional pork barrel, and the widespread corruption of civilian defense contractors and their subcontracting remoras. But I'm not telling ya anything new, with 2 decades in this grind of your own.