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Something worth looking into and asking your contacts at Frontier about is USERRA. It’s essentially a law stating that if you’re called to military service that prevents you from continuing in your civilian job for some time, your employer is required to hold your job for when you come back.
https://www.dol.gov/agencies/vets/programs/userra/USERRA-Pocket-Guide
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You should have received an email yesterday and today. If you didn’t, let me know your email and I can forward them
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Hey guys! I had PRK in January. There are a lot of rumors out there as far as eye surgery goes, so hopefully I can help clear some of it up since I’ve talked directly with some doctors at Wright Patterson about it. First thing, some squadrons include a checklist form (always the same one) in their application for if you’ve had eye surgery, but when I emailed a doctor at Wright Patterson, he said he’d never seen it before and sent me the one that they actually use. I’ve included a picture of the incorrect one with a big red X so you can see the wrong one as well as attached a PDF of the correct one.
Second, some squadrons will say you have to be one year post-op before you can apply. That’s only true if you had hyperopic correction (you were farsighted before surgery). If you were nearsighted (myopic), you only have to wait 6 months according to the form I received from the doctor at Wright Patterson (second paragraph).
If you want to find the specific medical requirements the Air Force has for everything, look in the Medical Standards Directory. I have attached what I think is the most up to date version, but I’m not 100% positive since I can’t seem to access any af.mil site right now to confirm.
My biggest piece of advice for anyone considering corrective eye surgery would be that unless you have to have it to qualify for an FC1 (ie. your eyes are beyond what’s acceptable without being corrected with surgery), wait until after you’ve been through training so you don’t have to worry about getting a waiver or something going wrong with the surgery. Also, once you’re in, the Air Force will pay for it.
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Incorrect form and email from doctor at Wright Patterson since the Bogidope interface wouldn’t let me attach both photos and files together on the same post.
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Thanks guys! I used really every quality resource I could find. I’ll share the links below. As far as the actual studying goes, I would go through a section and review every single page, even if I already knew the stuff on it, then do a practice test or two for that particular section. I would study any concept I missed a question on, not just the question itself. For example, if I missed a question on systems of equations, I studied systems of equations as a whole until I couldn’t miss any question about it again. After going through each individual section, I started doing full practice tests (all sections in one sitting for the few hours it took) and would follow the same review/remediation process on any questions I missed. It’s really important to not just study the specific questions you miss, but the actual concepts since the real test will have different questions, but on the same topics. Don’t just study until you can get the questions right, study until you can’t get them wrong!
The reason my Quantitative score is so low compared to the others is that I ran out of time on the arithmetic reasoning section. In practice, I was even finishing it faster than the allotted time. You’ll find that on test day, you probably won’t finish quite as fast as you do in practice, even if you simulate it as closely as possible in practice. When you’re doing the practice tests, time yourself with the real times and practice until you can comfortably finish a good bit of time left on each section. For the table reading section, I got to the point where I was finishing with about 30 seconds remaining while practicing, but the day of (both in a practice run of that section before I left the house and in the real test), I was bubbling the last answer as time ran out. If you’re not prepared to comfortably go faster than you need to, you can count on running out of time on game day.
Those are the biggest pieces of advice I have and in the interest of not writing too much of an essay, I’ll stop there ????. I’m happy to answer any further questions you guys have though!
Here are the books I used:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08QGNTP94?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1637981961?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share
And here’s the official Air Force AFOQT prep materials: https://access.afpc.af.mil/pcsmdmz/Form%20T.HTML
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One other thought, for the aviation information section, it’s good to be solid on the stuff the books have, but definitely try to do PPL ground school first, otherwise you’ll probably struggle with that section
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https://quizlet.com/451378913/tbas-uav-scdunn2439-flash-cards/?i=1v6gms&x=1jqY
tbastestprep.com
Ditch the flash cards, flight simiulators, and random internet forums. The TBAS Test Prep Tools are by far the best way to prepare yourself for the grueling
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@yahoo I studied a couple hours a day most days (probably averaged about 6 days a week or slightly more) for just under 3 months. I think I scheduled the AFOQT about 1.5 months into it after gauging where I’d be a little over a month later. I wanted to make sure I was going to knock it out of the park, so I continued studying past the point where I knew I could do well, to the point where I could only get scores close to perfect. I wish I’d have practiced speeding up the arithmetic reasoning section a bit more so I didn’t run out of time on the day of, but in the end, one score below 90 shouldn’t be the end of the world with my others where they’re at. You’re going to be nervous on test day, so the more you can do to give yourself complete confidence that you’re going to nail it, the better.
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That’s awesome, I can’t wait to get to do some aerobatic flying! That makes a lot of sense about your core, I should make sure to hit that hard as well.
