Can confirm his wife was better at beer pong than him
100% this. The 2 people at the top of our class after non-radar finished in the bottom 4. Someone else in our class said he was going to finish #1 overall, and constantly compared his academics with everyone else, but finished in the bottom half also. They could study their asses off for a multiple choice or map test, but struggled under pressure during radar runs, so they tumbled. If they slipped up or didn’t take academics as seriously, they’d be sitting on their asses at home while the rest of us are traini— oh wait...
On day one of basics, I started asking where people wanted to go, just to size up the “competition.” It was pretty amazing to see the disappointment in people’s faces when nothing on our list was where anyone wanted to go.
I have 3 facilities overall that I'd like to go to (and 8 I'm trying to avoid, the other 12 I'm ambivalent on), and I hate to sound like a dick but my heart soared when I saw none of the facilities I wanted to go to on the recent Enroute Eval List. Just means more slots get filled up at places I don't want to go (I know this doesn't guarantee a good facility list for my class in any way)
Sure doesn’t. Lots of repeats go into every list, and they show up on every list. Plus, you’ve gotta hope nobody else wants your preference, and that you score well enough to get there. Your preferences may change based on lots of factors while you’re there, too. You might work with an instructor that you really respect and get along with, and they could convince you that the facility they worked their entire career at is the one you’d be best suited for. You just never know. Then again, living in OKC for 4 months in the dead of summer will make you wish you were anywhere but there.
Yep. Just have to work as hard as I can, score as high as I can and pray the facility list is halfway decent.\
I finished top of my class so I chose what I “wanted”. But the whole time we were across the street, you could consider I was tutoring the others in my class because there were two places I would have preferred to be that were at the bottom of the list. If one more would have passed, I’d be in a different part of the country. If we had two more pass, I’d be at a facility that I would prolly retire in. Help those that are struggling in your class just for your own personal benefits. As long as you know your stuff.
Haha. Nah. My competitive nature would rather just beat people fair and square and that is totally within grasp of anyone who wants it. If you know your stuff solid, then the nerves won’t be as bad cuz you won’t second guess yourself. You might have stupid, elementary questions, but ask the instructors on every break just to clarify stuff. Academy is easy.....
Are you talking about the older white dude white hair that wears aviators?