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  1. Arkbird
    Wait until you get to formation and you realize that you completely skipped this in RIQ. Formation will humble you real quick.
  2. Arkbird
    Congratulations to everyone who was selected. For those who didn't quote get what you were looking for, don't give up if this is something you want to do. I know guys who got it on the third, fourth, and fifth tries. If anyone has any questions about UPT, feel free to ask. I'm not as good of a source now that IPT is a thing vs traditional UPT (ish) that I went through but I know people going through and have finished IPT and UPT.
  3. Arkbird
    Congrats! Your package looked good. Glad the board could see that.
  4. Arkbird
    Not with how short the syllabus is now for the T-6. With the new UPT program, they seem to be getting ~45 hours in the T-6. It's a great and pretty forgiving trainer but everything comes at you quick if you're not prepared.
  5. Arkbird
    Everyone always focuses on strats for the board. I was a 3/3 squadron and 5/6 wing strat when I applied yet here I am flying the C-17. Not a brag but a reality that strats aren't everything. I was even told after I was selected by some friends that my package wasn't as good as some others they had seen from people who weren't selected - I guess they were wrong since I was selected and they were not with a "worse" package.
  6. Arkbird
    They made it seem like the T-6 was getting old and having maintenance issues to the point of making IPT a thing when I was at Columbus. Not sure if that's accurate but maintenance was always the focal point of why we had a class sitting for weeks.
  7. Arkbird
    PC-21 to PC-24 for heavy studs. PC-21 to T-7 for CAF studs. Makes the most sense and would be relatively easy to procure both. But the Air Force wants an "innovative" solution, not an actual solution that will produce favorable results equivalent to legacy UPT syllabus.
  8. Arkbird
    I was technically a Lt when I applied so I didn't have a lot of first hand leadership (RPA). I will say I had a lot of "first" in my package explaining how I was the first to do something. So it could be in how you frame your experiences as well.
  9. Arkbird
    Best way to do it in my opinion. Waiting sucks but not thinking about it makes it go by quicker.
  10. Arkbird
    Good luck everyone! When are you all expecting results?
  11. Arkbird
    I believe that's how it was done at least once the changes to UPT started being made initially. When I went through recently, you needed an event graded to a fair/good/excellent depending on the phase you were in plus every X amount of rides you had to reaccomplish that event. If you were good at some things and worse at others, you could spend fewer rides doing the stuff you were good at and move the amount of rides for that block to a different part that you were weaker on so you could get more experience and practicing with whatever it was that you sucked at.
  12. Arkbird
    432d used to have a policy of if your pcsm score wasn't 80 or higher, you wouldn't be able to apply. The year I applied they didn't have that so it's always hit or miss depending on the year and wing CC.
  13. Arkbird
    Honestly, this is how it's done in the C-17 community. Co-pilot non ACs can only PM assaults. Not say it's right but I can see AMC A3 looking at us and seeing that the 130 flow can become like that.
  14. Arkbird
    Can you say what aspects? I'm curious on how this compares to other MWSs
  15. Arkbird
    PC-21 to replace the T-6, PC-24 to replace the T-1, T-50, M-346, or any other proven advanced trainer to replace the T-38 would all be great but what AETC would say is that none of these solutions save the air force money. Something something our current UPT is producing the best and most capable pilots we've ever produced or whatever buzzwords they'd use.
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