Life after OCUs...?
How does life change after OCU/OCFs?
During the training pipeline you often hear “This is $h!t” or “I hate the crappy training system, things are so much better when you’re out of the training system” but then again you also hear of all the stress ‘real’ pilots are under and how training is a walk in the park and the best time you’ll have in the air force.
So which is true? Is the training system one big jolly with life afterwards consisting of crappy secondary duties and endless deployments OR is the training system a stress filled, uncertain few years and when on a squadron it’s all piss ups the night before flying, routes and rates?
Obviously these views are very oversimplified but I’d like to know what the old and bold (er) and those who have actually been there reckon on this one?
My specific “hypothetical” question is this:
You’re a young guy rapidly approaching your multis wings. Would it be better, with hindsight, to stay in the air force and fly multis?
OR
PVR and fly with the airlines (assuming you have sponsorship from an airline)?
PUO