CAE Army Fixed-Wing Course
 

Anyone have the details to the new CAE Army fixed-wing course down in Dothan, AL? The old FWMEQC had plenty of info on it when FSI ran it, however, all that’s really known about the new course is that it’s 3 months long and there’s a combination of flying the Grob and the C-12.

Truly sorry to hijack this thread a bit, but on a mostly related note, is the Army sending people direct to fixed wing these days?

YES, FWMEQC exists. Tried explaining that to someone here a couple of months ago and they couldn't be convinced otherwise. We have people in my unit with FY19 reservations. The RA may not be sending people. The Guard and Reserves do.

There is an IEFW track as well now.

FW is now a selection at Rucker. You go through primary, instruments and BWS like normal, but if you choose FW your rotor wing days are done.

Only for AD. Guard and Reserves do what they want.

Was written for the AD side, guard doesn't have selection since they already know what they're flying.

Yep the IEFW track isn’t bad, building dual engine time with only a 6 year ADSO. And if you stay in past that there is the opportunity to fly UC-35’s or Guifstreams. I graduated flight school about 14 months ago and I have 400 hours total time so the flight time is there as well as long as you deploy.. and are a warrant lol

They do the Grob and the C-12U now.

Old program had C-182, Baron, C-12C/D, then C-12V sims.

New one AFAIK has Grob then C-12U. C-12V is reserve exclusive and I've heard that they don't do nearly as much - it's C-12U focused. AD sends people through who select FW in selection, usually going on to a SEMA course unless they go straight to a C-12U VIP unit.

Just got out of the MC-12 course and feedback from IPs is that new students who come through the CAE course are not as well prepared as the students who came from Flight Safety. That's obviously anecdotal feedback, but they get less overall time, so it may be true.

Yep, to the chagrin of USAR VIP units, students are not getting any C-12V time at CAE. It's "fun" teaching someone ProLine 21 straight from the cockpit :eek: