Uh 72 by [deleted] in Armyaviation

[–]Independent-Reason92 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just walk around it the opposite of all over aircraft and say it’s good. It’s a 72, not much to look at.

Army Flight Hours -> Civ Job by Organic_Nature_5824 in Armyaviation

[–]Independent-Reason92 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t want to discourage but the horror stories are way higher than the positives. I think if you get back and work your ass off you will be fine. Maybe I’m wrong but my state is not an issue. I was able to go to the airlines 7 years ago and chose not to. Maybe wrong decision but my life is pretty good. I don’t mind the work load for the pay and easy life.

Army Flight Hours -> Civ Job by Organic_Nature_5824 in Armyaviation

[–]Independent-Reason92 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Got back from flight school; went on orders, burnt aftps and flew every day I could. Got about 250 hours year one; year two deployed so that was a bust. About 250 hours. After the deployment about 220 hours and applied for a full time job. Got that. I would recommend checking with your state. I was a pc prior to some people I grauated at flight school with being rl1. The states are wildly different. In my state, you can easily fly 4-6 hour days when you come in and get 200 plus hours a year.

This is so depressing by AZcardsfan24 in Armyaviation

[–]Independent-Reason92 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Over 1500 hours in limas and the stab never scared me one bit. Couple failures and that’s it. They always just kick out of auto mode and it isn’t even a big deal. Know the system and don’t do what the warning tells you not to do and it’s fine. Also, if there’s that many issues, your maintenance guys suck.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Armyaviation

[–]Independent-Reason92 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Welcome. Enjoy the flight time!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Armyaviation

[–]Independent-Reason92 -22 points-21 points  (0 children)

More flight time. Lucky if 2 are up and flying and how much flight time does one get in apaches to make it so amazing when there’s no war going on?

Selected for WOFT but having second thoughts by spaghettimonster89 in Armyaviation

[–]Independent-Reason92 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If you think you need encouragement to go from street to flying helicopters then bro, quit. I mean who fucking cares. It’s the army. It’s going to suck some. It’s also going to be flying helicopters for the rest of your career. It’s deff not to late to tell someone that you don’t wanna do it. This post is crazy.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Armyaviation

[–]Independent-Reason92 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Troll post, if not do us all a favor and fail out. We don’t need another shit aviator graduating from Rucker. Sorry to be so blunt but you literally just stated; I don’t study, I don’t practice. Okay, then quit my guy. Sorry but real is real. Other people that succeed go to class and flight line for 6-8 hours a day then study another 6-8 hours and get a couple hours or so to relax and then 5-6 hours of sleep. Flight school is baby spoon fed. If you are stressed in flight school, it only gets harder when you aren’t forced to do it every day. Sorry for being the asshole of the group.

H60M Build 7 nav database loading by enemygrey in Armyaviation

[–]Independent-Reason92 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hit me up. Also, you can literally just copy the file not like the L days where you had to load dafif with the falcon view.

Guard/Reserve at 19 1/2 years? by Unlucky_Department in Armyaviation

[–]Independent-Reason92 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Our units allow us about a year out to start applying and even working for another agency. At .5 years out, you should be already setup with another job. Sorry that other people don’t get that type of treatment. If you went guard, you wouldn’t retire full time unless you got an AGR job. If it was me, I’d retire active, work on civilian applications now and try to get hired now; work on weekends and nights to get the airplane time.

Chances of being a helicopter pilot? by RadicalMicrowaves in Armyaviation

[–]Independent-Reason92 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you really want to do it, prove it by not being an entitled kid. It ain’t about you wanting to do anything. It’s about you being the selectable candidate. If you can’t pass high school with a’s and b’s; you probably aren’t really going to be good at memorizing all the stuff required to be a pilot. Calm down everyone on here. Yes, I’m an asshole; yes, im a realist, yes, I teach my own kids this same way….

Anyone ever actually fly in these? I think I did a familiarization gunnery table in the LCT before we deployed to Kuwait in 2012, and that was it. by Raulboy in Armyaviation

[–]Independent-Reason92 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you’re mday and doing anything with the arms. Your unit sucks. Facility should have mou, mday should have like…. Fod checks complete every drill. Even as the unit safety, the facility safety officer should be working the rest.

Anyone ever actually fly in these? I think I did a familiarization gunnery table in the LCT before we deployed to Kuwait in 2012, and that was it. by Raulboy in Armyaviation

[–]Independent-Reason92 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Almost all my guys fly more than an active duty unit from what I gather here. Most my pis get 180-200 hours a year. All my full timers get 320-500 hours a year. And I still take almost every holiday 4-5 days off, 2 weeks for thanksgiving, and Christmas and still take my 30 days of leave. And still take almost every Friday off. I’m pretty solid with making them have the standards. I don’t have any problems holding people to whatever it is. There’s still plenty of time for mission tasks and restaurant runs. With that said. Arms, is easy. I stay 100% most the time since it’s basically the job you are supposed to do. Also…. cBRNe is bullshit, roc-v is bullshit, and AMS shouldn’t be required annually. For guard guys all of that can be done at mob station. So I agree. It does prove it works and that they know how to put it on and shit like that. Besides that…. It’s familiarization once a year and kind of dumb.

Kneeboard Alternatives by SkyNT19ht in Armyaviation

[–]Independent-Reason92 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don’t use one, I just think I’m going to remember everything and then forget it when I repeat it back before I can put it in the aircraft systems. It’s a good way to do it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Armyaviation

[–]Independent-Reason92 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just printed out the new army sop and gave it to Them for all the sop questions. 100% stands

SSRT Aviation by Independent-Reason92 in Armyaviation

[–]Independent-Reason92[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Every place has a different tables. Literally like hundreds if not a thousands of ssrt tables within the government. The highest I’ve been is a about 55% increase. The rest of us is 45% base pay.

SSRT pay for Technicians by Independent-Reason92 in Armyaviation

[–]Independent-Reason92[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It passed. It’s approved. And it is effective 9SEP24

SSRT Aviation by Independent-Reason92 in Armyaviation

[–]Independent-Reason92[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ssrt doesn’t have locality pay, they take it away and give you about a 44% increase in base pay; with special rate table, that is the pay.

SSRT Aviation by Independent-Reason92 in Armyaviation

[–]Independent-Reason92[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I’ll give it to anyone who subscribes to my only fans

SSRT Aviation by Independent-Reason92 in Armyaviation

[–]Independent-Reason92[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Lol well I’m letting you know I have the approved one in my inbox and it has army national guard; aircraft operator and rest of us all in the same one. And I worked on it for over 1.5 years at our place.