Originally Posted by
USMCFLYR
For someone with no prior flying experience - fellow students in my first CQ class found themselves behind the boat with less than 140 hrs.
Now that they only go to the boat ONCE before getting their wings - the numbers should be higher because they will have gone through different/additional phases of training prior to the first try at CQ (the LTjg mentions the strike det at El Centro for example)
Any prior VT IPs at Meridian or Kingsville care to chime in here with the recent numbers an SNA would go to CQ?
It's not that much higher. I had a hair over 200 military hours when I went. The T-45 syllabus is broken into phase 1 + 2. Right now studs select E2/C2 out of phase 1, and all they have left is the boat. Studs that move onto phase 2, will generally do some advanced phases before the boat. But it comes down to how the OPSO wants to flow them.