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<blockquote data-quote="FLYIN" data-source="post: 8845607" data-attributes="member: 21018"><p>Alright the next step is post TBS. So you are done and now you move on down to NAS (Naval Air Station) Pensacola, Fl for API. Aviation Preflight Indoctrination. Marines go through Naval flight school. So your classmates will not just be Marines. There will be Navy, Coast Guard, some Air Force and some allied foreign countries. During your check into and prior to classing up for API you will receive another more indepth flight physical to insure that you are medically qualified for flight duty. API consists of a 6 week course. 4 weeks of Academics, water survival, and 2 weeks of practical application of water survival, basic survival, para sailing. The 4 weeks of academics is a big fire hose in basics of Aerodynamics, Aircraft Engines, Weather, Navigation, and Flight Rules and Regulations. About 2 tests per week. Basically is weeding out process to see if you are able to take in a great deal of information in a short period of time, since that is pretty much what flight school will be like. All tests minimum passing score is 80%. Failing an exam will be a quick way to get attrited from flight school, so you can be one of those guys that has stories of how they were going to be a pilot, but.....blah....blah...blah. I meet alot of those guys. Basically at API is where the clock starts as far as your flying career. You can be attrited from flight school before you even get anywhere near an airplane. On the flip side this is also where the grading process starts for your overall flight grades for graduation. There is a score that sums up how you did at flight school. It is called the Naval Standard Score referred to as NSS. This score will be used to determine your performance and ultimately how you select or are selected to fly which follow on aircraft. Can't remember the specific range of scoring but if I remember it is typically between a score of 30 (low) to 70 (High). The score is based on past classes going through flight school as well as those currently going through. It is a standard deviation based on the group as a wholes average. How they come up with it is actually Pure ****ing Magic if you ask me. To sum it up though you start being evaluated at API. Then the fun part starts after that. </p><p></p><p>From API, Marine students will go to follow on primary training. Everyone begins training in a fixed wing platform. You can go one of three places. Stay local to the Pensacola, Fl area at Whiting Field in Milton Florida, go out to NAS Corpus Christie, TX, or a few folks can go out to Enid, Ok and do their primary training with the Air Force at Vance Air Force Base. Whiting and Corpus you will fly the T-34 Turbo Mentor. If you venture out to Vance AFB you will fly the T-6 Texan. </p><p></p><p>T-34 Turbo Mentor</p><p><img src="http://www.history.navy.mil/planes/t-34c.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> </p><p>T-6 Texan</p><p><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3109/3253280209_be749eb5dd.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>The T-34's eventually will go away as the Navy is supposed to be transitioning to T-6s. It has just been a slow process. The T-6 is a much newer aircraft and has all new avionics, GPS, glass cockpit. </p><p></p><p>This is where it all starts though. You can expect to get around 100 flight hours in primary and training to take anywhere from 6 months to as much as 1 year. Biggest factors to how long it takes may be aircraft availability and weather. The Corpus guys tend to take a little longer than the Whiting guys because of weather. The ones who go and train with the Air Force at Vance get done quick in as little as 5 months. Primary flight training consists of Academics Tests, Simulators, Briefings (Oral quiz ****ing) and obviously flight events. You basically learn the basics of being a pilot. Everything done here determines which pipeline you will follow. Whether you go on to the strike pipeline (F-18s, AV-8, EA-6), maritime (C-130), Tiltrotor (V-22), or Helos (AH-1, UH-1, CH-46, CH-53). The minimum NSS to beconsidered for jet (strike) pipeline is 50. The majority of flight school student coming out of primary will fall below that. Somewhere in the upper 40s. Basically though once complete with primary you will put down your wish list. Jets, Maritime, Tilt, or Helo. Based on how you did (your NSS), what you want and what is available at your selection time. From there you move onto Advanced Training.</p><p></p><p>Strike (Jets) pipeline will take place at one of two places. Kingsville, TX or Meridian, Mississippi. You will go through training in the T-45 Goshawk. This stage of training will be much like primary (Academics, Sim, Flight, quiz ****ing). Around 130 hours and should take 6-10 months depending. Toward the end of training you will go to get carrier qualified, and do some tactical training and basic instruction on Air Combat Manuevering and Weapons Delivery prior to graduation.</p><p>T-45 </p><p><img src="http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/images/AIR_T-45_Carrier_Landing_lg.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://www.fighterjetz.com/d/3794-2/t45-goshawk-kingsville.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Maritime (C-130 types) will train at Corpus Christi. Same type of training as previosuly stated minus carrier quals, and Weapons delivery. Basically getting rated in a multiengine aircraft. Same time frame, maybe a little shorter than the Jet traing. Call it 6-8 months. There you will fly the T-44. Its basically a king air.</p><p><img src="http://www.fas.org/man//dod-101/sys/ac/t-44.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Helicopters will do their advanced training at NAS Whiting Field in Florida. Same time frame around 100-130 hours of instruction 6-8 months to complete. You will train in the TH-57 Sea Ranger. It is basically a jet ranger. </p><p><img src="http://www.seeandavoid.org/images/aircraft/TH-57%20Sea%20Ranger.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://navysite.de/planes/th57_2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p>Finally if you choose Tilt Rotors (V-22 Osprey pilots) you will go through a revised syllabus of both the Maritime and Helo pipeline. If you went to primary at Whiting Field expect to do your helo training first then follow on to Maritime in Corpus. If you were Corpus or Vance expect to do T-44 (Maritime) training first then follow on to helos at Whiting.</p><p></p><p>So regardless of which pipeline you have selected the fun part is next. Earning your Wings of Gold and choosing your follow on and future fleet aircraft. This is based on the same criteria. How you did in relation to your peers (i.e graduated first, second, last in your class), what you want, and what is available. Best part though is when complete you have achieved something many will never have the opportunity to do. Time for some pics, showing which aircraft the Marine Corps has to offer.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FLYIN, post: 8845607, member: 21018"] Alright the next step is post TBS. So you are done and now you move on down to NAS (Naval Air Station) Pensacola, Fl for API. Aviation Preflight Indoctrination. Marines go through Naval flight school. So your classmates will not just be Marines. There will be Navy, Coast Guard, some Air Force and some allied foreign countries. During your check into and prior to classing up for API you will receive another more indepth flight physical to insure that you are medically qualified for flight duty. API consists of a 6 week course. 4 weeks of Academics, water survival, and 2 weeks of practical application of water survival, basic survival, para sailing. The 4 weeks of academics is a big fire hose in basics of Aerodynamics, Aircraft Engines, Weather, Navigation, and Flight Rules and Regulations. About 2 tests per week. Basically is weeding out process to see if you are able to take in a great deal of information in a short period of time, since that is pretty much what flight school will be like. All tests minimum passing score is 80%. Failing an exam will be a quick way to get attrited from flight school, so you can be one of those guys that has stories of how they were going to be a pilot, but.....blah....blah...blah. I meet alot of those guys. Basically at API is where the clock starts as far as your flying career. You can be attrited from flight school before you even get anywhere near an airplane. On the flip side this is also where the grading process starts for your overall flight grades for graduation. There is a score that sums up how you did at flight school. It is called the Naval Standard Score referred to as NSS. This score will be used to determine your performance and ultimately how you select or are selected to fly which follow on aircraft. Can't remember the specific range of scoring but if I remember it is typically between a score of 30 (low) to 70 (High). The score is based on past classes going through flight school as well as those currently going through. It is a standard deviation based on the group as a wholes average. How they come up with it is actually Pure ****ing Magic if you ask me. To sum it up though you start being evaluated at API. Then the fun part starts after that. From API, Marine students will go to follow on primary training. Everyone begins training in a fixed wing platform. You can go one of three places. Stay local to the Pensacola, Fl area at Whiting Field in Milton Florida, go out to NAS Corpus Christie, TX, or a few folks can go out to Enid, Ok and do their primary training with the Air Force at Vance Air Force Base. Whiting and Corpus you will fly the T-34 Turbo Mentor. If you venture out to Vance AFB you will fly the T-6 Texan. T-34 Turbo Mentor [IMG]http://www.history.navy.mil/planes/t-34c.jpg[/IMG] T-6 Texan [IMG]http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3109/3253280209_be749eb5dd.jpg[/IMG] The T-34's eventually will go away as the Navy is supposed to be transitioning to T-6s. It has just been a slow process. The T-6 is a much newer aircraft and has all new avionics, GPS, glass cockpit. This is where it all starts though. You can expect to get around 100 flight hours in primary and training to take anywhere from 6 months to as much as 1 year. Biggest factors to how long it takes may be aircraft availability and weather. The Corpus guys tend to take a little longer than the Whiting guys because of weather. The ones who go and train with the Air Force at Vance get done quick in as little as 5 months. Primary flight training consists of Academics Tests, Simulators, Briefings (Oral quiz ****ing) and obviously flight events. You basically learn the basics of being a pilot. Everything done here determines which pipeline you will follow. Whether you go on to the strike pipeline (F-18s, AV-8, EA-6), maritime (C-130), Tiltrotor (V-22), or Helos (AH-1, UH-1, CH-46, CH-53). The minimum NSS to beconsidered for jet (strike) pipeline is 50. The majority of flight school student coming out of primary will fall below that. Somewhere in the upper 40s. Basically though once complete with primary you will put down your wish list. Jets, Maritime, Tilt, or Helo. Based on how you did (your NSS), what you want and what is available at your selection time. From there you move onto Advanced Training. Strike (Jets) pipeline will take place at one of two places. Kingsville, TX or Meridian, Mississippi. You will go through training in the T-45 Goshawk. This stage of training will be much like primary (Academics, Sim, Flight, quiz ****ing). Around 130 hours and should take 6-10 months depending. Toward the end of training you will go to get carrier qualified, and do some tactical training and basic instruction on Air Combat Manuevering and Weapons Delivery prior to graduation. T-45 [IMG]http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/images/AIR_T-45_Carrier_Landing_lg.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://www.fighterjetz.com/d/3794-2/t45-goshawk-kingsville.jpg[/IMG] Maritime (C-130 types) will train at Corpus Christi. Same type of training as previosuly stated minus carrier quals, and Weapons delivery. Basically getting rated in a multiengine aircraft. Same time frame, maybe a little shorter than the Jet traing. Call it 6-8 months. There you will fly the T-44. Its basically a king air. [IMG]http://www.fas.org/man//dod-101/sys/ac/t-44.jpg[/IMG] Helicopters will do their advanced training at NAS Whiting Field in Florida. Same time frame around 100-130 hours of instruction 6-8 months to complete. You will train in the TH-57 Sea Ranger. It is basically a jet ranger. [IMG]http://www.seeandavoid.org/images/aircraft/TH-57%20Sea%20Ranger.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://navysite.de/planes/th57_2.jpg[/IMG] Finally if you choose Tilt Rotors (V-22 Osprey pilots) you will go through a revised syllabus of both the Maritime and Helo pipeline. If you went to primary at Whiting Field expect to do your helo training first then follow on to Maritime in Corpus. If you were Corpus or Vance expect to do T-44 (Maritime) training first then follow on to helos at Whiting. So regardless of which pipeline you have selected the fun part is next. Earning your Wings of Gold and choosing your follow on and future fleet aircraft. This is based on the same criteria. How you did in relation to your peers (i.e graduated first, second, last in your class), what you want, and what is available. Best part though is when complete you have achieved something many will never have the opportunity to do. Time for some pics, showing which aircraft the Marine Corps has to offer. [/QUOTE]
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