Well you don’t know wtf you’re doing the first time LOL
My first problem in the lab I swear I keyed up on damn override calls like 3 times and blocked myself.
I am not sure when you made it through the Academy and don't mean to suggest you had easier problems but my instructor who has been around the block said that recent problems are more challenging while at the same time some rules have been relaxed to try to even it out. Just for reference, my problems were all comparable to the harder 12s with a lot of weird situations but 0 emergencies. So if you evaled when a bunch of strips used to print, you couldn't PVD until close enough to make the call and you had to use distance for point outs . . . . . you may be talking about a different class of problems.
32andBelow and I aren’t that far removed from the academy. All of the things you’re talking about, we had to do.
This.
If your signature is correct and you went through in 2018 . . . then you are far removed from the Academy. Practice problems have changed, evaluators have changed and the rules have changed. So your experience was different. I am not comparing the Academy to the real world. I am not trying to belittle your advice or experience. All I am saying for those who may still be at the Academy is that the current Radar evals are not easy. They are challenging. I have a sample of about 20 people who evaled in the last month. A decent percentage of whom averaged in the 90s. None of them say evals were "really easy." Walking my dog is easy. Doing the dishes is easy.
So they weren’t easy, but a decent percentage averaged 90s? How does that make any sense?
To be specific I would say about 20% averaged 90s. We might just have different opinions on what makes something hard or easy. I'll share mine . . . I got my degree with a pretty high GPA and no question of whether or not I'd complete it but I wouldn't describe it as easy. I averaged a high 90 on Nonradar evals but wouldn't describe it as easy. Some people find everything about the Academy easy and kill it playing video games every day and studying minimally. Others bust their ass and scrape by. The point is it's all relative and the entire program is not objectively easy. If it was my class wouldn't have been the 4th class of my instructors 15+ year career where everyone passed.
I remember huddling around a table at Kim’s giving everyone the low down on this problem lol
Y'all are getting defensive like I'm attacking you. My point is your experience was different. I don't know what your problems were like and you don't know what the current problems are like. I'm just sharing my classmates, some other grads I know and my experiences this past month. It is factually true that problems have changed (we know this because there are instructors who keep a list of scenarios reported by students), rules have changed and evaluators have changed. Y'all think the problems were easy. There may be people who read this thread and eval in the future and agree with you. I personally know about 20 people who would disagree with you and there may be people who eval in the future who fall into this group. Shit all 20 of us may be shit controllers in the future who knows. All I'm saying is Radar evals are neither objectively hard or easy but they are designed to challenge everything you learn.
And I’m just saying to scan and not rely on EDST. EDST puts you down the shitter
VVBA is a quick 16 point loss. Not that it happened to anyone ???
What's VVBA?
the fuck, i thought the navy only were on ships
