Originally Posted by
Otterbox
You’re insane if you think any non tacair community is gonna be a cake walk and require less dedication... what other communities lack in required dedication to flying skills like tacair they make up for in required dedication to BS busy work, duty and ground jobs.
Your question has already been answered. Fly jets to be an airline guy... The VQ(T) community sucks QOL wise (I know pilots who would have beerios in the mornings on their day off just so when they got called for another tornado escape det they could tell OPS they already started drinking and wouldn’t be available) but hey you’ll get a 707 type rating...
VP life you’ll end your 8 year commitment on a 2 year non flying boat tour that they won’t let you out of because they don’t want you to leave flight current. Same with helo dudes also... and also VQ.
Sounds like you want to fly helos more than E6s... go for it.
Whatever you ultimately end up putting down on your selection card, don’t put down things because you think life will be easy and you’ll have a high QOL. You won’t, and you’ll be sorry you ended up where you were because reality will be vastly different than what your imagining.
Think you read a little too far into what I meant, the dedication I’m referring to is the “gung ho” “i wanna be the next top gun” attitude. For many studs, they show up super motivated to fly jets. No other community has that level of draw for students. I’ve yet to meet another student who is gung ho anything but Tacair. Therefore I’m choosing not to go tacair because i know there 12 dozen other students who want it 100x more than i do. I don’t want to take that away from them, when I don’t have that level of “gung-ho” attitude. Not going to burn up their spot/future career because I kind of think it’s cool.
Not dead set on helos, hence the post. Why do you say QOL is bad for E6s?