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Need help finding answers? Save time by chatting live with an adviser. We're not online right now, please try again later. As before mentioned, most pre-brief for 3 hours, for a 3. Many of the sims are with Flight Engineer students and the FE instructor in the box as well.
A decent amount of prep time including some homework assignments, TOLD, etc is required for each sim. In practical terms.. This is MUCH cheaper and better quality than going to a place like Target or Wal-Mart and buying the clear contact paper and doing it yourself.
I KNOW.. I already laminated one of my charts like that.. Never Again! How is the base? Little Rock is a large base. The new gym is probably one of the best gyms in the USAF — it is two-stories tall, with an indoor track, many windows and even mirrors to check yourself out in.
It is located across the street from academics and has flexible hours and is open most days of the year and it is located right next to the academics building, directly across from the chow hall. Large free weights area, indoor and outdoor basketball courts, nice outdoor sand-volleyball court, locker rooms, and tons of cardio equipment.
Little Rock offers a couple of nice swimming pools for your leisure. The Chow Hall is only fair at best. For the 6-week guys you can stomach it, but for the long course folks, it will be painful. Absolutely insane and UNflexible hours makes it a challenge to get in there.
The food quality is unpredictable. The pricing scheme is confusing. Money is much better spent at restaurants and the commissary. Commissary, BX are standard. Shoppette is hours, with gas station. Other than the chow hall, there is the Golf Course with good grilled food including a good breakfast. The layout of the golf course is being changed to start by Hangar This is a small town with very limited offerings.
Some decent small restaurants. Wallmart, etc… In Jacksonville Main Street , there is a nice County Rec Center with a gym and a great yard indoor lap swimming pool. The next big center is North Little Rock, about 25 minutes down the highway. There are an assortment of furnished apartments available for month-to-month leasing.
This may be an option for you and your family see TDY Pay issues, below. Many are located fairly close to the base in Jacksonville. Here is the scoop: Finance will pay you the daily rate at billeting and you have to foot the rest of the bill. As soon as you live on-base for 30 days, your BAH immediately stops. I know this because I refused government quarters and got a furnished apartment at the Links the second day I was at the school.
I am keeping my BAH legally and I still make the I did not believe this at all, but once I researched it with the chief of finance there and separately asked finance members there on various occasions, they were all in agreement! You can actually go on base for three weeks, leave, and still keep your BAH.
This is good to know because my class right now is in the middle of Christmas Break. In this case, some people are being told to either move out from base lodging while they are on leave or stay on-base, but pay the lodging costs out-of-pocket while on leave status. Staying off-base will allow them to keep their apartment, and, while it is not a perfect solution to the problem, still allow at least their last BAH to at least offset the missed lodging and perdiem costs compared to their base pay doing that.
I hope this helps out people coming to Little Rock. Maybe this will put some questions to rest! Some of you newbies may ask why do they pay you less perdiem to stay on base? If you stay on-base and it is deemed that the chow hall can provide for ALL your meals i. This is to reimburse you the meals you will have to purchase when the awful chow hall is closed.
This form only applies to persons who have ALL of their meals provided — i. Al Udeid, Qatar. Clear as mud? Need examples and instructions on how to fill out your Travel Voucher? Go to our new How-To section. Now, all you have to do is weigh your car empty then weigh it full and get reimbursed for the weight and mileage too. Also, if you have been authorized a Gov rental car Alaska guys, Ramstein, etc.. For this TDY you are actually eligible for pounds to be shipped both to and from LRAFB — I actually capitalized on this when I saw I had accumulated a bunch of excess stuff, I had the packers come to my billeting room and pack up and ship some stuff to my permanent duty station while I was at the Rock in addition to my PCS shipment.
Having personally had many problems stemming from trying to use this Accrual Voucher, I will never do one again if you are bold enough, go for it! Typically Finance will overpay or underpay you and at the end of your TDY, if you use accrual vouchers, it is very difficult to track how much they have paid you and to catch their errors there will be many!
Your records that you brought to Navy Corpus from your T base i. Personnel records, flight records, etc.. Also, there may be various other offices that you need to stop and sign paperwork — fill out security clearance info, etc… Start off in the Taj Mahal big temple-looking building on the main drag at Randolph at outbound assignments and go from there.
You should allocate a good day to do all that you need — you should be able to do this after winging, prior to leaving Corpus i. If you still need to weigh your vehicle, there is a handy weigh station very close to Randolph.
If you plan on cooking in the room, bring some cooking items pyrex bowl, can opener, utensils, etc. They do provide a small coffee maker for your use billeting. Entertain yourself — bring video tapes billeting supplies the VCR — if you want music, you will have to bring your own stereo; billeting offers a clock radio alarm clock.
Recreation items: Golf clubs — you will have plenty of time for this and the course on base and driving range is popular among students. Fishing, camping, rock climbing, hiking, canoeing, etc… This is the outdoors state, remember? Bring anything associated with these activities. Flight Physicals? Forget about it — you better get it done prior to arriving at the Rock. As far as helping you with PCS stuff i. Alaska , Japan, and Germany bound folks they are slow and irresponsible. You will be able to file an Accrual voucher while TDY — this is a monthly travel voucher that you have to come in every month that you are TDY and fill out at finance and you will get days TDY pay each time instead of waiting for the lump sum at the end of your 5 months at the Rock.
Plusses here are that you can keep some extra cash flow to pay for billeting and other TDY expenses. The bad thing is that Finance constantly dorks up any piece of paper or form. I have seen many an instant of this type of voucher backfiring overpay, underpay, late pay, etc..
Questions on how to fill out a travel voucher? Check out our Interactive Travel Voucher. Final Words: Enjoy yourself here; the course is long and Little Rock does offer a lot. Little Rock has plenty to entertain you. The cops on-base are pretty overzealous and speed traps abound — so watch out! Bottom line: you are the only one that cares enough to keep your paperwork straight.
If you choose to do the split reimbursement i. Help me keep this gouge up to date — send in other tips, advice, anecdotes, corrections, etc. Contact Us. Little Rock School House Guide. The Schoolhouse has also created a section on the AF Portal to help out new students. Thanks to Jeremy Bower. Please make sure you have the following information with you: 1.
Good luck. Lodging — On-base versus Off-base and the rules governing Little Rock. Lodging: or DSN Mail — What is offered, where to pick it up. Scott Sturkol. ANG Public Affairs does not act as an operator service. They do not have the capability to redirect incoming calls to other offices.
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The AFOQT measures aptitudes used to select candidates for officer commissioning programs and specific commissioned officer training programs. The proctored exam takes approximately four hours and has five sections; pilot, CSO, verbal, quantitative and aptitude. A local Air Force recruiter can help with test scheduling.
Scores for most applicants offered an interview average about 75 for pilots on the pilot section, and 60 for CSOs on the CSO section. An applicant has the opportunity to retake the test once without any restriction in order to try to obtain a higher score, but will need a waiver in order to retake it more than once.
Only the last score recorded is accepted, and six months is required between tests. Michael Reneski, chief pilot in the nd Airlift Squadron and a traditional ANG member who works as a commercial pilot.
Reneski also reviews pilot application packages and schedules candidates for interviews with the unit's UPT board. Study materials are available for purchase online, or at most bookstores and libraries that carry Scholastic Aptitude Test preparatory material.
Each board meets at least once annually. To be eligible for a board interview, an applicant must be younger than 28 years old at the time of the interview. This is necessary because the Air Force requires a candidate to be less than 30 years old the day UPT or UNT starts, which can be one to three years after the interview. For education, a bachelor's degree from an accredited four-year college or university is required, or the applicant must be within one semester of graduating.
If selected, about two years of preparations and training follow before the candidate is fully qualified as a pilot or CSO. Those who are not commissioned officers at the time of selection must attend the officer commissioning program of the U.
Air Force. One day prior to departing for the officer commissioning program, all UFT candidates are promoted to staff sergeant. Upon successful completion of an Air Force commissioning school, members will be commissioned as a second lieutenant. IFS standardizes flight screening across the Air Force, provides for military rigor and camaraderie, and is the sole source of flight screening for all Reserve Officer Training Corps and Officer Training School aviation candidates.
IFS is not required if an applicant has a private pilot's license. Pilots and CSOs train on the same aircraft for the same time, but CSO candidates do not perform a solo flight or land.
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