Just back from flight screening

Advice: Enjoy yourself!!! and work hard.

It is an absolute blast and you will meet some great people.

Nothing can completely prepare you for the two weeks so go there work hard, and have fun.

By the way it is very hot in Tamworth around this time of year.

FSP program
 

Would any contributors to this thread be aware of when the new 2011 FSP program will be uploaded to the ADF pilot Selection Agency Flight Screening Program schedule webpage on the RAAF website.

Thanks
Lacho :)

A good example of why the flight screening process works.

The decision is made very easy when the girlfriend decides to head to Europe for a year literally a week before officer training commences! :rolleyes:

And hopefully the decision was to kick the b!tch to the kerb!:ok:

possibly the best reply I have read on this page, ever. :D

If she doesn't run on JP-5 she probably isn't worth it Tony ;)

CSD
Still got it I see!:D

Coffee mug still in service as well???:E

Your either a follower or a leader and that applies to relationships.

Obviously the balls to make the decision didn't match the maturity to do so prior to FSP and therefore take the spot of someone else.

Obviously the balls are being held in some one hands other than the owners.

So you weren't the bloke that left FSP early then Tony360?

Septerra - gliding is a good option for a number of reasons with price certainly being up there. However from a selection view-point it's regarded well as it demands quite a bit of time from you. Anyone with cash can throw dollars at a cessna school, turn up, fly and walk away; a few glider flights often require a full day at an airfield assuming you're going to a self help club. A log book with gliding solo and more indicates a real commitment to flying. Quite aside from the fact that you tend to become an empathic pilot in the long run.

The temptation to pass comment on girlfriends and being hard done by with delays is huge - but I'll resist!!

I did see someone self suspend because her boyfriend wasn't happy:E

Goes to show defence is an equal opportunities employer!!:ok:

One of the top 5 bits of advice I ever got...
If a woman ever says it me or the job
Take the job, the woman's already gone.

A teacher at my school was a clearance diver and was originally accepted into the Navy as a pilot. I was chatting to him yesterday and he was saying that there are allowances paid to pilots (and others) such as qualified allowance and flying allowance. They were substantial extra amounts so I assume this is something I would be expected to have researched as a part of the pay for my assessment day, yet I can find no mention of these allowances on defencejobs or the individual service websites. Does anyone have any information about these?

Thanks!
Sam

Hey Shonfield, are you sure about that, mate?

I hopped on the site to check and found this link under pay and allowances for Pilot. Scroll down a little bit and you'll find what you're looking for.

Guess I didn't look hard enough... :O:ugh::ugh:

Thank You!

Hey,

Just got the call for PSA on March 5th! Anyone else on that course???

Cait

@marguireta,

I lack the experience and the insight to have an idea of the various flying training venues available, but thanks to all the positive endorsements from yourself and others, I have decided that gliding would be a worthwhile activity to express my enthusiasm to the recruiters while conforming to my tight financial elasticity. So, thanks again.



I was researching on glider flying schools as I am looking to start lessons within the next two weekends, and came across a couple of websites, namely the Gliding Club of Victoria which provides lessons at Benalla and the VMFG [Victorian Motor less Flying Group] in Bacchus Marsh. The Gliding Club website mentions that one is able to go solo within five to eight hours of instruction before advanced training, and this basic course can be covered in a five day package or over a few weekends and quotes it at $2100, while the VMFG site mentions that one can go solo within a year of membership and seems a little more expensive.
I have no doubt that I would find it quite a breath-taking experience since it would be my very first time seated in a cockpit, and have loads of fun learning all that is shown. However, since I haven’t had the financial freedom to afford this experience prior to now, and my file being resent to the PSA within the next two months, I am left with very little time and am therefore looking to fill out my logbook with at least a few hours of flying, to project my enthusiasm and the commitment I am willing to make, to the PSA. I haven’t gotten around to contacting the two above mentioned organisations, but was wondering if anyone with the knowledge or experience can comment on the two extreme time frames quoted here by the two schools. Furthermore, any suggestions on other providers of glider flying lessons around Melbourne would also be appreciated.


Thank you.
Best Regards
Sep

BTW, congratulations Caity, I am envious :P . Good luck mate.

Septerra,

It will depend on a number of factors but assuming you pick it up at a reasonable pace it will only take you a couple of hours to go solo on gliders. Somewhere in the neighbourhood of 3 up to 10 hours, but obviously it depends more than just how competent you are (weather, instructors, frequency of flights...). If you're using motor gliders then obviously for a given timeframe you'll have more freedom to practice certain aspects of a flight (ie. get more circuits in) if you desire and possibly solo sooner.

Those packages are foreign to me; both places I've glided at over the past few years have been considerably cheaper and don't tend to do large blocks of instruction like that or set timeframes for solo.


Lesnak,

Really hope you get to the bottom of that issue and get your application back on track. I've had some significant hurdles in my application from medical to testing woes but having that thrown at you after surviving FSP would have topped my list! Have you given avmed a bell?

Quick Q on behalf of my son (I'm 2 decades of ATC and waaaay too old) whose Internet is down in our present locale. I'm using the work box.

On the last day of FSP there are leadership tasks, an essay, a speech and interviews.

Is the speech on a topic of your choice or the assessors?

Is the essay on a topic of your choice?

Any other info on that last day is appreciated. Thanks in advance - I'll make you No1 in the sequence. ;)