RSAF: urgent
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Hey guys, i would like to ask u all!!!! I currently in BMT now i have sign on with air force for 2 position 1 is Pilot the other 1 is aircrew specalists........Now i am undergoing the health screening but i think everything will be okay. After tat then i sign a real contract if they wan me la.. can i ask if i am a pilot or aircrew specialists, after my BMT or OCS, am i going to australia straight away....I heard them say u have to train in singapore for 6 years for pilot b4 u can fly an real air plane......Come on guys any comments sia.... i wish to know abt these 2 position b4 i regret...
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relax, its still early, who knows, you may not pass the interview process
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ok, for pilots:
Airgrading course in Tamworth, Australia, 2 months
Officer cadat training - tri service term, 1 month
Air force service term, 2 months
basic flying phase at flying training school in pearce,Australia, 10 months
Advance flying phase, 11 months
fighter pilots - France
Transport aircraft - Singapore
Helicopters - Singapore
Wings, 26 months -
Does it mean after i being selcted for pilot i straight to OCS and after completing OCS then straight away go to australia???Originally posted by CenturionMBT:ok, for pilots:
Airgrading course in Tamworth, Australia, 2 months
Officer cadat training - tri service term, 1 month
Air force service term, 2 months
basic flying phase at flying training school in pearce,Australia, 10 months
Advance flying phase, 11 months
fighter pilots - France
Transport aircraft - Singapore
Helicopters - Singapore
Wings, 26 months -
Originally posted by force83:
nope u go 4 airgrading first ... at australia ...
Does it mean after i being selcted for pilot i straight to OCS and after completing OCS then straight away go to australia???
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What do u mean by Wings ?Originally posted by CenturionMBT:ok, for pilots:
Airgrading course in Tamworth, Australia, 2 months
Officer cadat training - tri service term, 1 month
Air force service term, 2 months
basic flying phase at flying training school in pearce,Australia, 10 months
Advance flying phase, 11 months
fighter pilots - France
Transport aircraft - Singapore
Helicopters - Singapore
Wings, 26 months -
get ye wings meaning become pilot la
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well i think i can answer you the best since i have been thru this phase of pilot training but din make it thru airgrading so i could onli stop after airgrading.
There are 3 scenarios that can happen.
First scenario, if you qualify for OCS after BMT, you would be posted to OCS to complete your Tri-Service Term. After which you would be posted to Air Force School to wait for your turn to fly to Tamworth which is an hour's domestic flight from Sydney to do your airgrading.
Second scenario, you did not qualify for OCS but you manage to finish in the top few percentile in your cohort during BMT. You would get posted to Air Force School immediately after BMT. During your posting order, you would come under the category of RSAF regular. After which you would then wait for your turn to go to Tamworth for airgrading.
Third scenario, you made an application for pilot training, but becoz of pending medical status after the health screening, your status as pilot trainee is not confirmed, hence you would complete whatever posting you had after BMT, following which if your medical has been approved of, you will then be taken out and sent to Air Force School for your turn at airgrading.
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My bro is also very interested in RSAF. He's quite well-read on it and hopes to sign on as a pilot, but too bad, he wears glasses. does anyone know what's the limit for speckys nowadays? what about if he joins as a chopper pilot or WSO?
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1. the limit for speckys should be 500 correctable to 6/6. but chances are likely that you wouldn't qualify for fighters.Originally posted by @lpha753:My bro is also very interested in RSAF. He's quite well-read on it and hopes to sign on as a pilot, but too bad, he wears glasses. does anyone know what's the limit for speckys nowadays? what about if he joins as a chopper pilot or WSO?
Do they (chopper pilots and WSO) have to go overseas too?
2. Chopper pilots stay in Singapore to train.
3. WSO (fighter) would require you to go to the USA for a year for training. other than that, other WSO vocations would remain in Singapore.
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hey then for the airgrading wats is it all about izzit very difficult to pass??? airgrading can fly plane liao huh??
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Dude, i suggest you don't become a pilot. To be a fighter pilot, is to be the elite of the airforce. If your worries as to whether training is tough, what the hell man? If it was so easy everybody would have became fighter pilots. You are insulting the training syllabus and you've got the cheek to ask what are wings?! And you wanna be a pilot? Screw it dude, Pilots arn't afraid of hard work to get what they want.
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Originally posted by Understand:Dude, i suggest you don't become a pilot. To be a fighter pilot, is to be the elite of the airforce. If your worries as to whether training is tough, what the hell man? If it was so easy everybody would have became fighter pilots. You are insulting the training syllabus and you've got the cheek to ask what are wings?! And you wanna be a pilot? Screw it dude, Pilots arn't afraid of hard work to get what they want.
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airgrading isn't tat difficult if and only if you came from Youth Flying Club. lolxOriginally posted by force83:hey then for the airgrading wats is it all about izzit very difficult to pass??? airgrading can fly plane liao huh??
well airgrading is a hell lot of mental stress that the instructors impose on you to see how well you perform under pressure.
You've got lotsa checks to memorise and instructors sitting next to you would scold you for the slightest mistake tat you make since safety is part of the air force culture and i am sure you want to be as safe as possible when you are flying in the air. and yes, you get to fly the plane...
Roughly let me tell you wat airgrading syllabus is.
Sortie 1 - The instructor takes you for a joy ride. but dun take it as a joy ride. you gotta start to remember ground features as this determines where are the boundaries for different training area. After which he will show you the effects of control; i.e how the plane would reacted to the control of the pilot. after which brace yourself for some black knight manouevres as this is done to see if you are prone to get air sick.
Sortie 2 - the instructors takes off for you and you move off to training area for training and impart further knowledge of the gyroscope, the altimeter, the speedometer and etc. then slowly he would ask you to do the checks slowly one by one. Turning the plane and etc.
Sortie 3 to 5 - basically is the same as sortie 2 just tat you would start to take off by yourself and do the checks required yourself without any prompting from the instructors.
Sortie 6 - A pre test sortie. basically is sortie to practice all the stuff you have to do for your test.
Sortie 7 - Test 1
Sortie 8 to 15 - Dunno liao coz din make it thru test 1. lolx. but gotta do with aerobatics and high angle turning and such.
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Hey so hw abt aircrew specialists man!!!!
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Originally posted by force83:
sometimes those who are chopped from airgrading are sent to sembawang as acs(nsf). u may not like the life as a reg in the saf but if u enjoy flying. this is a good way to spend 2 years of your ns life.
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if you have no real interest in flying and just wish to try your luck and see if you can make it as a rsaf pilot. its going to be difficult. all those that earn their wings had a deep love for flying.
its a long process and if you think u pass out with your wings, you are guranteed a pilot job. u are wrong, i've come across a guy who passed out as a pilot and got his wings taken off becos the co of the operational squadron feel that he is not good enough. so this poor guy got stuck with a fresh 10 year contract with rsaf and lost his wings. ended up as a S1 before going to univ for studies. not sure where he is now.
rsaf is strict with its pilots. after passing out, u are cat d. in 2 years u must reach cat b or you lose your wings too.
basically everyone can learn to fly, but to reach the level that rsaf requires from its pilot is only a few who can attain it. u must not only be good in your flying skills. i've seen students being chopped becos they are weak in ground school. -
Hey i wen to OCS liao...
But dunno can go in pilot a nt.. they havent call me sia