Hi LaraCroft, the application is pretty straight forward, obviously you submit your initial app online then, if successful, you will be invited to sit the AST (Airman Selection Test), when/if you pass that you will then have an interview. Again this is pretty straight forward, they ask you about your schooling various hobbies/clubs you may have been involved in, they go all the way through your schooling to present day, and what you're doing now. Should you pass that you will then be given a date for a medical. The medicals are done with an outside firm called Capita!
The medical is straight forward, and as a women, I am pleased to inform you no embarrassing or scary checks. They will ask you to strip to your underwear, but this is so they can see you body alignment, any scars etc! I think they also try to get women doctors for women applicants...I think!
You do a couple of press ups, some lunges, then some funny walks backwards and forwards.... then they check you heart beat, BP, hearing, chest capacity!
Don't worry too much if you don't pass first time, I think very few do! I was told my BP was too high and had to get a 24hr monitor from my doctor.... my BP was so fine my Dr wouldn't give me a BP monitor.... whole fuss, annoying but in the end, it all got sorted!
You pass your medical next up is the fitness.
Assuming you're in the same bracket as me, 19 - 29, you have to do 10 press ups, 32 sit ups and a 1.5mile run on a treadmill in 12.30mins or less!
Pass that, you're onto the PRTC (Pre-Recruit Training Course) stage.... which I am currently at.
Best of luck with everything, the womens application isn't that much different from the guys, if you're already fairly fit the fitness test is a doddle, just make sure you run on a treadmill a couple of times before the test as it can feel weird if you've never tried.
Any questions, you know where we are