Sounds like you're a lot more than "12 twists per inch" to me!
The RAAF Flight Engineer courses I mentioned earlier were set up to accept ONLY experienced GEs, being 'licenced' in at least two trades, which of course turned out to be mostly airframe/engines GEs. Even with significant experience, it was very difficult to get selected!
Even the ones experienced on the P3C had a hard time learning all the extra info that covered all the other aircraft systems, as well as weight & balance, navigation, basic airmanship, and a host of additional maritime ops subjects, then they had to complete a full flight simulator program, followed by flight training and checkout.
They all come out the other end saying it was the hardest course they had EVER done!
Then they started gathering experience in the seat!
Last edited by Flight Detent; 21st Nov 2008 at 09:00.