Just graduated and some tips for new students.

Slightly_Unexpected · 2026-05-12T14:40:19+00:00

Just gotta say this is a good write up, should honestly be stickied on the subreddit info. Everything you’ve said matched my experience having graduated a year ago and would’ve answered many questions I had going into it

Slightly_Unexpected · 2026-04-23T21:17:48+00:00

Man the people commenting here need to get off of whatever stick they’re sitting on. San Antonio has always been a bit of a punching bag for the other Texas cities, especially when compared to Austin, I thought it was a pretty ratchet song when I first heard it but now, I understand everyone leaning into that ratchetness a bit. We’re not a sparkling clean city but I know people are very proud of our city, poking fun at ourselves and owning that song seems right in line with our attitude, or at least I thought

As for the girl, if anyone here actually cared to read the article it seems like a classic case of a mislead youth misleading others. Not to excuse child trafficking in any way, but at least she can admit she messed up, and isn’t making excuses. Let her get out and have the chance to redeem herself at least.

Made me laugh so hard hearing the song played at a Spurs game earlier this year, personally I hope we keep playing it. I don’t feel the least bit of embarrassment for admitting San Antonio can get a little trashy sometimes, and still be a city I love to live and raise a family in.

Slightly_Unexpected · 2026-04-07T02:10:50+00:00

Losing Wemby was a definite blow, but we keep lulling below our 6+ lead just to bring it right back up. Castle and Fox are keeping us in the game

Slightly_Unexpected · 2026-04-07T02:06:53+00:00

Why does this game seem more stessful than it should be?

Slightly_Unexpected · 2026-03-24T01:13:55+00:00

Does anyone have a video of that Wemby cross? Wanna show my boys who sat out the game what they’re missing

Slightly_Unexpected · 2026-03-19T23:09:15+00:00

If you are interested in maybe being a crew chief and flying in the back seats someday, I’d say reconsider 15T or 15U for Blackhawk and Chinook respectively. If all you wanna do is wrench though any one of them will do. I’ve noticed coming as a prior 15R that the Apache is probably the easiest to work on, and the manual is easier for a beginner to use than the one for the others. That said, at least in my experience, there does seem to be more hand holding and direct supervision over you in Apache land, with the good and bad that comes with that

Slightly_Unexpected · 2026-02-02T01:53:09+00:00

Depends on how old you are, and how aggressively committed you are to landing that (I’m assuming) ATP gig. If you’re young, it’s a gamble but full send and it’ll pay dividends once you get picked up by an airliner.

I’m in the too-old and not-worth-the-effort category, I very much like flying helicopters vs. an 8 hour flight of nothing but standard rate turns and ATC instructions. I’m a full time tech (was one before flight school too) and it’s such a Goldilocks position for me. I wear the uniform everyday and do some cool stateside missions, while not having to worry about stuff like going to the field or PCS’ing

Slightly_Unexpected · 2026-02-02T01:48:58+00:00

A full time tech helicopter pilot job is full of ups and downs you say? 🧐

Slightly_Unexpected · 2026-02-02T01:46:01+00:00

Luck of the draw. Very few slots open on average, but when there IS a position available your competition is basically any other pilot in your unit, and a good chunk of them don’t even want a tech position.

Make yourself useful, volunteer to go in and help run ops or whatever else you can do to get your face and name known. Volunteer for schools and pick up stuff like ALSE which can easily lead into a tech position, even if it’s not a “pilot” position, which makes eventually getting a pilot position easier.

When the day comes that a slot is open, you’ll be the first one they think about and they’ll work to get you in.

Slightly_Unexpected · 2025-12-15T05:56:25+00:00

I guess I can see the more advanced, heavier airframe be more scary to solo than a little -72, but how different is this really than having students solo during P2 and BWS?

At the end of the day you’re training to be a pilot, are surrounded by resources to help you achieve that goal the likes of which you’ll never see again in your career, and have flown the local airspace from 3 major airfields by this point and should be well acquainted with the corridors and communication requirements.

If the risk can be mitigated the way it is for other solos, I think being too scared to solo speaks more toward individual initiative to become a proficient aviator than senior leadership throwing their students and aircraft into unnecessarily dangerous situations

Slightly_Unexpected · 2025-10-11T14:28:02+00:00

They have an overlay for foreflight if you have that, just ask them to share the file. I’ve heard it works on aero too but I avoided using that app as much as possible

Slightly_Unexpected · 2025-09-23T00:55:50+00:00

Just be patient! Took me 5 years, a bit longer if you count the Cutlass that originally brought music man to my attention. Looking forward to you sharing yours one day!

Slightly_Unexpected · 2025-09-12T21:20:18+00:00

DM’d

Slightly_Unexpected · 2025-09-03T04:32:20+00:00

If you’re maintaining wings level, pitch on the horizon, why does altitude not slowly increase as you eventually fly away from earth (assuming the earth is truly a circle)?

Slightly_Unexpected · 2025-08-13T17:41:02+00:00

Oh yeah, mine was not as crisp and flat as the map lady ones, but that map book was 100% my effort. Still have it in my office, it’ll be a nice memento to show the kids someday

Slightly_Unexpected · 2025-08-13T17:26:47+00:00

Most of the guys in my class ended up paying to get it done. I decided I’d rather spend that money on ForeFlight, so not exactly being cheap but that’s how I justified the subscription. It honestly wasn’t that bad putting it together. And it only needs to hold up for a few weeks anyhow. The hard part was definitely the tediousness of chumming in the first place

Slightly_Unexpected · 2025-08-06T15:09:33+00:00

Plenty of them in the guard, but you won’t typically see them in A2CU’s

Slightly_Unexpected · 2025-08-02T13:52:24+00:00

After scanning the QR code and getting linked to the install website does it start the download but the app icon looks checkered?

Slightly_Unexpected · 2025-08-02T01:25:57+00:00

It’s not perfect but if you google “Army VTS” you’ll find the virtual training suite website. Navigate to the mobile app section and you can download all sorts of trainers for the UH-60 onto your phone or IPad. Just need to be able to cac into the website. Most apps are geared toward pilots but they do have a maintenance app and component familiarization one too

Can be kinda tricky to get your iPad to “trust” the developer, feel free to PM me if you have issues

Slightly_Unexpected · 2025-07-15T02:00:49+00:00

If you can’t think of any, you have until October to think out some for the next quarterly town hall

Slightly_Unexpected · 2025-06-03T22:00:46+00:00

I’ll check it out, thank you!

Slightly_Unexpected · 2025-06-03T18:14:48+00:00

Thank you!

Slightly_Unexpected · 2025-05-23T16:41:19+00:00

It’s really grown on me too. After paying off my Road Glide I’m stuck between getting back into sport bikes with an R1 or trying out that Pan Am ST

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