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I was active AF and went Navy Reserve. I'm currently the XO (DO) of my Reserve Squadron Augment Unit...we're integrated with an active duty squadron. The application is an odd process compared to how someone would join the guard or AF reserves and there are a couple reasons why. Right now, there are just so many current and qualified Navy applicants for only a few slots. And the Navy Reserve doesn't take people off the street...just already winged .mil pilots. They do an Aviation Selection Board every quarter (generally...sometimes they skip a quarter if there are no openings). I was an active duty AF IP at Whiting and had every standardization (STAN/EVAL) qualification, FITU (their version of PIT) instructor, with letters of recommendation from several Navy Squadron Commanders (my own and sister squadron skippers that I instructed when they came through the FITU) and one from the Commodore. When I applied and was selected (in 2015) there was zero chance of anyone getting selected without Navy T6 time. After that, it was a 10 month process to transfer all my AF stuff over to Navy. It was about as fun as shitting a pine cone. If I had to do it over again, I might just have just passed and got out completely (since I made captain at my airline in two years). Now, I have to drop an easy trip that pays $2000 to go drill and make $400. First world problems I guess. PM me your email address and I'll send you the "trip report" I wrote up about my selection and IST.

I was thinking more like this...

The mishap report was released this week.

If the engine quit without a fire CAS message, no. Engine Fire and Dual Engine Out is.

LOL. Same here. I would have taken any assignment on my dreamsheet. Admittingly, a couple were shooting for the stars though most would have been doable. But, the AF decided that I needed to go back to the base and airframe I PCSed from. No thanks...7 day opted. Two years later I'm a captain at a major airline and made O5 in the reserves....thanks for the assist, AF!

Lots of good advice here, so I dont feel the need to add anything (except the stare at the VSI 90% of the time...dont do that). Just wanted to say that I was probably on CAP more than I wasn't throughout all of UPT. I tell people "I graduated in the top 10% of the bottom 20% of my class." But, I went on to be an instructor in three different airframes. Currently in the Reserves and a captain at FedEx. Bottom line, dont sweat it, keep giving 100% and dont give up.

He was awesome as a squadron commander. Great leader, great pilot, great guy overall.

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As of right now, the P-8 =/= 737 type rating as far as the FAA is concerned. The Navy did some backdoor deal where it's not the same type, even though it's the same airplane. I know guys that have gotten letters from the FAA rescinding their type rating. Shady shit really.

I handed them my single page ARMS summary...they looked at it for a total of 10 seconds max and never asked any questions about it.

And, there's no limit on the extra trips you can volunteer for at time and a half pay (as long as there's extra flying in your seat).

Agreed... I thought we were going to be eating ramen noodles during year one, but I wasn't making much less than I was as an O-4 on active duty. We were prepared with cars and other debts paid off and we rented a house and had a little bit of money saved. But, we still had a zoo membership and a membership to the children's museum, went to concerts, movies, etc so we still lived a fairly normal life. My first month of second year pay, I cleared $25K, so it really did instantly get better when second year pay kicked in.

I got out at the end of 2015 when the bonus was $25K a year. Exactly one year later, for my first month of second year FO pay, I cleared $25K...for the month. It was that moment I realized “the Air Force is fu*ked”.

I fly with my '75 Seiko 6139 automatic chronograph all the time. I figure Col Bill Pogue took his up to Skylab in the 70s, mine will do alright banging around in a T6.

I misplaced my small black jepp logbook (the one that you get with their private pilot kit) not long after I got my PPL and I never kept up with my flight time once in the AF. So here I am sitting in my first (and thankfully only) airline interview handing one of the interviewers my single page HARM summary. They looked at it a total of 6-9 seconds, set it aside and didn't ask me a single question about it. When I was in indoc, I mentioned that I finally made it to the big-time and I wanted to get a nice, professional logbook where I could finally start tracking of my flight time and keep it prominently displayed on my mahogany bookshelf with the other leather-bound books in my study. The instructor says to me "Why? Are you planning on getting another flying job?" LOL....nope. So now, to this day, I still don't keep a logbook, but if I could go back and start over, I probably would.