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 Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 9:03 am Post subject: RPA new website, regional flyins, manuals and your regional |
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Folks,
An apology and some news...
RPA is fielding a new website very soon, in the mean
time several links on the current training page need
to be recovered for such items as the briefing cards.
We'll knock that out in the next 72 hours. If you ever
need something (doc), you can also email
admin(at)flyredstar.org
The manual has been posted for download over several
months for members both to insure access and provide
widespread feedback on content and procedures. This
open process resulted in several minor changes, mostly
to the way in which procedures were presented,
modifications to art, enhanced explanations,
grammatical corrections, etc. The president is working
on a bound-copy distribution plan - that hard copy
version of the manual will have one additional chapter
(tac) and an updated cover. It is our absolute goal to
produce an accurate product, so this process has been
a long one...
"Man, this guys formation briefings are painful..."
A fundamental shift has occurred over the last 9 years
in our community - from clinic attendance comprised of
75% wingman candidates then, to just 25% today. This
means the group has matured and the emphasis should
now fully support the advancement Flight Lead skill
sets among wingmen/leads; Mission planning, briefing,
debriefing, communication, execution, on and on.
"You mean I should study this thing before the
clinic!?! But thats why we have that 5.5 hour power
point presentation right??"
So here is where RPA hopes this manual helps the check
pilots/event organizers and instructors in this new
push - the manual is detailed enough that wing
candidates have ample material to prepare/home study.
Our culture used to be one of "come to the clinic and
we will teach you formation starting with our ground
school" - and we would spend an entire day to give a
basic ground school of 140 slides - the emphasis
drifted away from home study (such as watching those 4
hour Darton videos which perhaps weren't quite
applicable enough)
Now much of this material is well laid out in this
manual - The program should place more emphasis on
home study by students. There is still a ground school
available, but we can reduce the footprint through the
application of the Flight Manual before you arrive. I
can tell you from Waycross it's very obvious which
wing candidates pre-study and which do not - and how
the progression is quicker for the former. Backseat
instructional time is always limited, having the basic
knowledge down (SOP), greatly helps us move the
program along. A shorter ground school Q&A session
means more flying or table top instruction.
Towards this end a student master question file
(multiple choice question bank) has been developed
that will support FAST/RPA. These questions are very
procedural in nature and simply designed to gage the
persons understanding of material presented in the
manual. The MQF will be sent to the check pilots.
The MQF can be used at clinics to help new candidates
identify areas that need further study, it can also be
used at check pilot discretion to assist in ground
evals if needed.
RPA in turn would like clinics, and clinic check
pilots, to focus on Flight Lead training for the
absolute benefit of all formation pilots - principally
through the RPA "Lead Seminar"; an interactive event -
not a spoon feeding of slides - the Lead Seminar was
totally upgraded in 2007. And, along with the basic
manual, briefing cards and training folders/inserts,
are products the Check Pilots should feel responsible
for - if something needs improving, the final agents
of change are our check pilots. Btw, the Lead seminar
also addresses formation instruction heavily.
The FF&P has changed, the requirements for commercial
license for Flight Lead is gone, as is the one year
wait from basic wingman qual.
CRUD: This is a fast-paced aviator game associated
with a pool table but without sticks and only one red
and one white ball. The rules are posted on the
website under events (how to and publications).
At Oshkosh we may have a two table CRUD room set up
for a regional RPA tournament (3 or 4 man teams) with
trophy that each winning region will engrave annually.
(btw, ICAS started this at their national conference
in 2002 and an RPA team called "Red Menace" won their
inaugural tournament). For those who know this game,
the rules will not be "combat", thus no moving blocks
and emphasis on speed, tactics and accuracy.
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