Graduated from flying the T-6 today!

[CALL911]

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:D Today I graduated from pilot training (phase II) flying the T-6. It was a blast (besides the grilling I got from all the IP's I flew with). I will miss flying the T-6 a lot. It will be the last one I am able to fly in fingertip position (less than 10 feet from another T-6) in formation. + Flying all kinds of loops, aileron rolls, barrel rolls, split-S, spins ect. It has been and will be the closest I ever get to flying a fighter for the Air Force.

Next I get to learn how to fly the T-1

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[hotrod96z28]

congrats!!

[AChotrod]

Both are cool planes, but all the moves you listed sounded fun as hell! Congrats!

[Fastbird]

Congrats buddy. I know you were sweating there for a while, and you had the worst luck ever, but I knew you'd make it. Congrats in the biggest and best of ways man, you've earned it.

[CALL911]

Thanks fellas :cool:

[The SRZ]

Congrats dude. That's a cool milestone in your career!

[popo8]

Congrats man.

[CamaroGirl]

wow thats really cool! congratulations!!

[CALL911]

Thanks everyone. :)

When I started my career in the Air Force, I was an in flight refueler on the KC-10. I always loved flying, even if my hands weren't the ones flying the plane. Even after a deployment (flying all the time), after about a day or two on the ground, I would always want to get back up in the air.

I was told I would be flying so much here at UPT that I would get sick of flying. But yet here I am on a weekend, only having 2 days since I last flew, and yet I am already wanting to fly again. I definatly have the flying bug in my genes. Once I graduate from UPT and get my pilot wings, I have tossed around the idea of getting a little plane to go flying whenever I want.

[The Engineer]

Where will you complete UPT for the T-1? Possibly Vance AFB here in Oklahoma?

WD

[CALL911]

Where will you complete UPT for the T-1? Possibly Vance AFB here in Oklahoma?

WD

Naw. I wish I did, cause then I could see a good buddy of mine that is out there currently for UPT.

Each base between Del Rio, Vance, and Columbus is responsible for their students from the start to graduating, from the T-6 through the T-1 and T-38. There are a few that after the T-6 get T-44's (for those guys wanting to fly the C-130's) or get UH-1's (for guys wanting to fly Helo's). Both the T-44's and the UH-1's are at different locations away from Vance, Del Rio, and Columbus.

In other words, I will be finishing right where I started, here in Columbus Mississippi.

[The Engineer]

Naw. I wish I did, cause then I could see a good buddy of mine that is out there currently for UPT.

Each base between Del Rio, Vance, and Columbus is responsible for their students from the start to graduating, from the T-6 through the T-1 and T-38. There are a few that after the T-6 get T-44's (for those guys wanting to fly the C-130's) or get UH-1's (for guys wanting to fly Helo's). Both the T-44's and the UH-1's are at different locations away from Vance, Del Rio, and Columbus.

In other words, I will be finishing right where I started, here in Columbus Mississippi.

I guess the T-37s are gone now? And if so, what year did they phase them out of the UPT program?

WD

[CALL911]

The T-37 has been gone for a year or so now. Even a year or so they were only at one of the locations I think. They had been slowly phasing them out for a while now with the new T-6's.

Personally I am glad. I heard plenty of T-37 horror stories, and read plenty of bad info on them that made me never want to fly them. For example, they had the highest G onset out of any Air Force plane in history (meaning they would go from 0 G's to high G's faster than any other aircraft in USAF history). With that steep onset of high G's, there would be more cases of G-locking (blacking out basically) in it than any other aircraft.

This is to say nothing that I heard it was a royal PITA to fly, and even harder to get to recover from a spin.

The T-6 is awesome, and a great plane to fly. Very responsive and extremely powerfull. I miss flying it already.

[trev_97ta]

looks cool

[CALL911]

The T-6 was a blast (now if it weren't for the IP in the back seat threatening you constantly...).

I am half way through flying the T-1's and they are fun as well, but much different than the T-6.

[HoLLo]

I hope to have pilot training after my degree and OTS! Congrats