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    2022 Active Duty Flying Training Board

    in Pilot Selection Process

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    On 2/10/2022 at 9:12 PM, Yodes said:

    If you are going to IFT, you can tell your resource admin (the person with the GPC) you need to buy one. That’s how me and another guy got them. I am not going to IFT, but the other guys is. He hooked me up. 👍

    Thank you for the insight! Any specific source you recommend? I'm assuming I just get measured at a local tailor shop and send in the measurements when it is purchased

    2022 Active Duty Flying Training Board

    in Pilot Selection Process

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    3 hours ago, Grizzlyyyy said:

    I reached out to AFPC/DP2OR about generic timelines for UPT selects specifically and was told their working to load MFS dates right now for those that need it, followed by IFT. Not sure if it's the same for everyone, but I was told late Spring-Summer for IFT and Fall PCS......... a bit later than I had hoped.

    I was under the impression that after MFS that you would PCS and go to IFT from there. IP friends of mine told me they never had anyone go to IFT prior to their PCS.

    2022 Active Duty Flying Training Board

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    5 hours ago, Init2 said:

    I have decided to stop applying. Been at it for a while and I’ve got to move on for the wife and kids. Best of luck

    Gotta do what's best for you and the fam! If guard/reserves is an option for you check out bogidope.com. At one point I was looking at the guard route and that website is phenomenal for see what is out there. Best of luck to you!

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    2022 Active Duty Flying Training Board

    in Pilot Selection Process

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    11 minutes ago, Frank said:

    FWIW I’d say it’s more about the content of the letter than the rank at the bottom.

    While these boards can be brutally competitive a redeeming factor is that they’re looking at the whole person and not just a few data points.

    I concur with this. Someone last year got selected with a 50 PCSM and in FY18 the lowest PCSM was a 20 for UPT. So many factors come into play that anyone has a chance no matter what their numbers look like.

    AFOQT Waiver

    in Q & A Forum

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    So I am trying to submit a waiver to retake the AFOQT a third time to improve my AFOQT Pilot/PCSM score. The main acceptance criteria for a third retake I am trying to leverage is having "significant flying time" as stated in the AFMAN. I have 23 flight hours since I last took the AFOQT and was curious if anybody has any success with getting this waiver to retake approved. Any insight is appreciated. 

    2021 Active Duty Flying Training Board

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    1 hour ago, Av8 said:

    I believe you are correct, I think @Bean may be referring to the fact that you can only apply once more if you declined something previously (i.e. wanted pilot but got CSO and declined CSO). Technically, I think you can apply as much as you want if you aren't selected for anything. However, it does raise an interesting point that it may be better to be selected for nothing than selected for something you don't want if you have a certain goal.

    Sorry for the confusion but yes this situation is what I was referring to in my initial question.

    On another note, for all those non-selects, are you all in rated career fields already? I’m speculating right now but it looks like the rated functionals are denying people releases when they could have been picked up for pilot with their high scores, total amount of flight time and PPLs. I’d be livid if I spent all my time/money into flying only to have a functional deny my release after the board met. 
     

    If my logic is flawed please let me know!

    2021 Active Duty Flying Training Board

    in Pilot Selection Process

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    1 hour ago, AFZ06 said:

    Well looks like I’m a non-select.

    FWIW I’m a current E-3 FTU Nav 1,000+ hours, 96 pilot, 91 PCSM w/ppl #2 WG strat. 
     

    AD can get bent. Time to start rushing Reserve/Guard units. 

    Just so I’m getting some context you are already rated and (im assuming) only applied for Pilot correct? Those scores are stellar and I’m shocked you didn’t get picked with those scores. 

    2021 Active Duty Flying Training Board

    in Pilot Selection Process

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    6 minutes ago, robby8388 said:

    AFPC stated the board doesn’t see medical stuff (flying physicals of waivers). People may have been selected without complete physicals as that was not part of the board package 

    My understanding of that was it wouldn’t be held against you if you had an approved waiver/ETP. So the board won’t see it because they are looking at known eligible applicants regardless of waiver/ETP etc. So in my mind there would be some mitigation against awarding slots to applicants they are unsure about being qualified. In an extreme case, if everyone was pooled together unknowing of IFCs/ETPs being done then all of the slots could be awarded only to find out none of them have necessary IFC physicals for what they were awarded (differing class physicals matter here). This is why I think there is some sort of risk mitigation favoring people AFPC already knows are qualified. Just my two cents. 

    2021 Active Duty Flying Training Board

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    8 minutes ago, takingamessage said:

    @Bean that's definitely curious. I wonder if anyone who wanted pilot as their #1 didn't get it then? Like a situation where someone lost Pilot to someone else who wasn't qualified. Or if all completely qualified candidates received their #1. 

    Hopefully no one gets faulted for getting everything done by the deadlines. The biggest thing is number of slots and the training dates. They said they are not giving training dates for anyone picked up without a completed IFC/ETP. So if there are a lot of people that don’t have IFC/ETPs done then I’m guessing that would favor people with the entire package done solely based on getting them to training faster. 

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    2021 Active Duty Flying Training Board

    in Pilot Selection Process

    Posted · Edited by Bean
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    On 1/13/2021 at 4:27 PM, AW091 said:

    I asked someone at AFPC and they told me that they have to brief the AFPC/CC at the end of January for his final blessing before any official results are published to either commanders or publicly. Mid February is still the best he could give me in terms of results. This individual also mentioned that due to the delays at UPT the original quota of 75 PIlots for 2021 was severely chopped, but he didn't want to give out numbers due to things being able to change for the better or for the worst at any moment before release.

    That is the most recent information I've gathered from a reliable source.

    Assuming all of this is true, what would be the logic for slashing pilot slots due to the pipeline? Since there is a big pilot shortage wouldn’t the 75 pilots still be needed? Maybe I’m missing something but I would think maybe later RNLTDs/training dates for the 75 selects would mitigate the worry that pilot trainees would be waiting around too long because of pipeline issues.

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