Originally Posted by
Kasserine06
If the goal of this test is to determine if I have the ability to safely land a plane (what every AF doctor has told me), then this needs to be reevaluated.
It is not about landing the plane. That's the easiest thing you'll do in the Air Force. It's about judging closure, like when joining on a formation mate, or since you gave 30 feet as an example, judging your position in the envelope when Air Refueling. There may be other times that you can use other ways to judge depth, but one day you could pull into your Formation Partner during an echelon turn.