Psycho joe, isn't 180kn, 15nm 5 minutes? Or am I missing something?
Good pickup, I'm presently home with the flu. Thats my excuse.
Haha, I saw a picture taken from someone else's Flight Screening course, and they were sitting around an F15 model plane they built; What is the deal with this?
Is this some kind of team building exercise?
..Or an ego stroking one. military 101, If you have enough stripes you make the rules.
Your ability to fly an aeroplane & be an officer will come down, in part, to your ability to glue and paint bits of plastic. If you do well you get the oohs & aah's from the Wing Commander & your plane gets whisked straight to the pool room (RSL). The ones that don't make it end up scattered around the OSB interview room.
Just as importantly you will have to give a speach without notes on a topic relating to the model. (engines, airframes etc.)
Good luck gentlemen. If we're ever attacked by plastic model aeroplanes, a beleaguered nation will collectively turn it's eyes to...the flight screeners.