RAF : Officer / Pilot Entry

Are you saying the math does not get any harder than basic times tables, the stuff i learnt in primary school!?
Do they send you a letter giving you details and percentages of how you done at OASC or tell you in a de-brief before you leave?

..You might not be eligible for aircrew, but you'd make an awesome controller; here're some books, go read for a while, come back for part 2; that sort of thing.

It also works in reverse - unless I'm very much mistaken. You can try for a ground commission only to be told that you passed, with ease, the aptitute tests for aircrew... (naturally you still can't wear glasses!)

Hey everyone, found out that i got a "silver", in other words i passed OASC but i'm getting reboarded in October and fighting it out with everyone else who also got a "silver".
I heard that around the august - september time of year, the raf is more selective as they get a better quality of applicant, ie school leavers and uni graduates, is this true? And does this mean that i still stand a good chance of getting through?
Hopefully i will hear something soon but any info would be great, i would like to try and put my mind slightly at ease either one way or the other, being in limbo really isn't great. Especially when you have to try and explain it to family and friends who don't really understand.

Be honest. Hiding something and having it found later will crucify your application; mentioning it early means there's at least a chance for dialogue. You might run into trouble if you've used an inhaler unless there's a very good note on your records talking about how it wasn't for asthma. Good luck.

What are the gradings at OASC and what do they mean?

So did you get put on an inhaler at the ages of 3 and 5 reffered to on the letter? because hopefully thats all that i had, as i was placed on an inhaler both at 4 and 5 i think, for no more than 2 weeks each time, and a course of drugs the first time. I have never had any syptoms since. Thanks by the way for the replies on my earlier post, now I can just pray that my doctor sends me back a note something like that!

I'm not in the medical branch so I really do hesitate to try and quote policy on this. If you've ever used an inhaler; regardless of whether it was for asthma, wheezing, on a whim or whatever, you may run into some snags.

I'd recommend that during an OASC medical, or the post-medical debrief, you mention it. If it turns up in your medical records that you were prescribed an inhaler, you might find that you end up rejected with no opportunity to discuss it.

So I'd bring it to the forefront and discuss it as soon as I could.

It's broadly correct, but it's always simplified for use in the air. If you're flying due north at (say) 120kts (as you will in the Tutor), with the wind coming from 030 degrees at 20kts, what heading should you fly to actually follow the black line on your map?

The wind is 30 degrees off; we use the "clock code" to work out how much of it affects you. The "full clock" is 60 minutes. 30 degrees is half of 60, therefore half of the wind is across you.

However, as you're progressing at 2nm per minute, you don't apply the full windspeed correction. Use the 1 in 60 rule (I'll drag out the full explanation if anyone's interested; it's been a while since EFT groundschool!), and you apply a correction equal to windspeed/speed in nm per min.

Hence at 2nm/min, 20kts wind, you apply a correction of 10. But as mentioned we only want half of it, so we correct by changing our heading 5 degrees into wind, and fly 005 degrees.

When you start doing low level flying a lot faster, you ignore wind, but it always affects at high level.

and how quick are u to work that out in the tests?

I have got my RAF OASC debrief tomoz see what i need to do for next year, hopefully they dont slate me too much lol, does anybody have any advice on how to inccrease your confidence in the interview situation and show the boarding officers your true charateristics? Thats wat let me downb this time round they saw my references and saw how outgoing and funny i was but they said i needed to project this more in the interview, has anybody got any advice on how to get over this boundry?

chears phil