Riddller's IFS & UPT Blog

Pirates 3 sucked. Don't bother. Couple of questions: I'm assuming you wear flight suits while flying. Do you have to get them issued at your previous base or do they issue them there? What about getting rank and such sewed on? Also, what's the typical background of an IFS instructor- prior AF, civilian, hours, etc? Thanks for doing this blog man.

Yup, flight suits after the second day (blues before that). The DOSS website asks that you try to get 2 of them issued by your base, along with gloves and a summer-weight jacket. If you can't, they will give you all the stuff here. As for getting rank sewn on, if you get the stuff from your base, you need to get your rank and velcro sewn on yourself. They'll give you all your patches here.

As for the instructors, I would say it's probably a 50-50 split between prior military (mostly AF, but not all) and straight civilian. Regardless, they pretty much all have several thousand hours of flying time.

And thanks!!

Hey! We get in Sunday the 10th, you still be around?

You're coming here?? Sweet! Of course I'll be here! Who's this 'we' you speak of? PM me if you don't want to plaster names ll over the internet.

Just don't pull a repeat of your first test at ASBC...

Do they give you a big hassle if you can't get the flight gear from your base?

Nope, not at all. There's a checklist you have to fill out and e-mail to IFS. In it, you say if you need them to supply you with the gear and the sizes.

Not a big deal!

Jacka$$ =) Anyway, they're three guys that were at ASBC with us, I know you met one of them (scrawny little guy, like 120lbs sopping wet) and another kinda preppy one. The other was just a random guy that we met there that is stationed with us here at Altus. Keep up the flying ;)