In my small corner of the AF, it's just like any other assignable airframe. Every student is putting it last, and that leads to the two lowest mass scores getting it.
There was a "discussion" recently between some flight/CC's and a certain DO about whether or not late rate Capt's can be assigned RPA's because of career impact (ie they can't FAIP so they shouldn't be sent to RPA). The flight/CC's felt that the assignments should be based solely on mass (so if a Capt is in the bottom, he/she will get the RPA if that's all that's left) but the DO believes that the Capt's should be safe from RPA assignments regardless of mass.
Having only had 1 class drop so far with the mandated RPA's, I think it's going to get far mor complicated in the near future
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