P3s fading away
P3Pilot...
I was dh in barbers (MO) when downsizing was happening...got passed for 05 and shortly thereafter saw the sqns go from 24 to what 13? When my son finished primary, there was a p3 draft..no one wanted them. He had flown with so many instructors in corpus that told him they flew maybe ten hours a month not including preflighting broke birds that were wasting their time...
After getting passed again (go figure) Clinton decided we should all retire to cut the federal workforce. I have talked to one of my old jo's here now who said he drills in jax and they have 4 planes to share among the home sqns and the flight time at home is very limited...
My son is flying helos and having a blast...he asks when he should get out...I tell him when he's not having fun anymore to pick up and move on...
Luckily for me, I stepped in ****** and came out smelling pretty nice...
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