RAF filter interview question...

Hey,

Anyone know how long it takes from having your filter interview to knowing if you have a date for OASC please?

Cheers

Most people seem to be saying an average of around 2-3 weeks. I heard about two weeks after mine.

Excellent cheers.

Any idea if I was to get a place on the assesment centre how long would it be from knowing if you have a place to going? Really hope i get a place!

I don't know really, Wzz is proabaly the best person to tell you that. It probably depends on the branch you're applying for and what vacancies they have at the time. What are you applying for?

Excellent cheers.

Any idea if I was to get a place on the assesment centre how long would it be from knowing if you have a place to going? Really hope i get a place!

Do you mean that if you passed the Officer and Aircrew Selection Process, how long it will take to go into active service? If that is the question, I have been waiting since May of this year! But I have recently joined a university air squadron as I decided to continue my student studies.

Now you're really confusing me. I thought you had applied to join as an airwoman? When did you go through OASC, and why?

If you did pass initial selection, I assume you've told them that you're now at uni, joining a UAS, and no longer wish to join, right?

You don't go through OASC for non-commissioned posts other than aircrew; Officers and Aircrew Selection Centre, remember?

That's why I was surprised. Also, I'd be a bit worried if she applied for non-commissioned direct entry, was accepted, is waiting to start training, and has joined a UAS without withdrawing from the initial application. If she hasn't, she'll get a letter shortly advising her to come to Halton to start, and things will get a little messy.

ahhh sorry to confuse you! When I initally applied for the RAF back in Feb last year I wanted pilot. They gave me that eye form for my optician to fill out. She did and I failed it. AFCO said there was no hope of being a pilot. They offered to help me choose another career so I chose FC. sat the filter int for that and then got offered an OASC date. Got irritated as I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do so I pulled out. Asked again about pilot, re sat the test and failed the optician report again. At the time I wasn't banking on being able to be in the airforce so I had been accepted to do engineering at a few universities. AFCO said they could take me on as engineer, I sat the tests passed in May and decided to go off to uni while waiting for a training date.


I went to the freshers fair, saw the UAS and enquired. Met a nice student pilot who convinced me to try anyway so I did. Went to OASC and passed for pilot as well as UAS. They told me there was nothing wrong with my vision! Got told I could join if I changed my degree and then I started to ask wether to go in as trades on not on here.

So yeah lots of career options in the RAF but the RAF is the only thing I will consider for a career.

A woman, in the Airforce, who'd of thought it

Hey if you've got in for pilot just go for it, a degree is something you can do at anytime, a pilot in the RAF isn't!!

What an insanely complex method of entry...!

Indeed! When I moved down to Bristol that seemed to be the general consensus at the afco! Ah well at least everything is alright now!

yes but I may as well get a degree while learning what the RAF is really like its only 2 more years anyway.