Originally Posted by
USMCFLYR
OK - I'll start off with the lauging then
Glider time counts towards other ratings, not a fair comparison.
Congratulations on doing good work dropping bombs with a RPA, but I don't think that experience is going to get you anywhere making it through the widgets in the application process. Good interview fodder though.
Yeah I would laugh too, in fact I'm laughing now. I just figured it would help inflate my 1600 hrs of Viper time. Atleast then they would see I had to use some CRM. They may not count it now but in 10 years when they can't make pilots fast enough they may count it as something. I'm a fighter guy by trade but I can say that flying RPA all over Afghanistan dodging weather and other aircraft and abiding by all the same flight rules it should count for something. I've flown enough civilian airplanes by autopilot to know that it's not much different. The only difference is you don't always log takeoff's and landings.
Someone had to ask the question. I'm sure if I get a phone call for an interview that my time flying RPA will come up and they will give me the hairy eyeball. Happy to be back in the Viper!
Cheers