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06-29-2021, 01:31 PM
#203
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First, you should learn to swim because it's just a good idea.
As far as pool day for training, you don't actually have to touch the water. You just go in an inflatable raft. You can/may have to wear a life jacket in case you would fall in, but it's not a swimming day, it's a demonstration of the life raft.
As far as pool day for training, you don't actually have to touch the water. You just go in an inflatable raft. You can/may have to wear a life jacket in case you would fall in, but it's not a swimming day, it's a demonstration of the life raft.
that was during the height of covid…..
06-29-2021, 05:50 PM
#204
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The instructor was duly impressed but opined that might not work in the Atlantic, or even the Med.
06-29-2021, 06:14 PM
#205
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Had a friend who was a C-21 (basically an exec transport Learjet) pilot in the USAF. African-American guy who pumped a lot of iron - heavily muscled- doubt he had 5% body fat. Most negatively buoyant guy I’ve ever met. Went through water survival refresher with him in the base pool. He never had been able to learn how to swim. His technique in the pool was to just let himself sink to the bottom and RUN underwater up to the shallow end holding his breath.
The instructor was duly impressed but opined that might not work in the Atlantic, or even the Med.
The instructor was duly impressed but opined that might not work in the Atlantic, or even the Med.
06-29-2021, 07:05 PM
#206
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The average male specific gravity is 0.98, but there is normal variability and some people are more dense than others. African American males also tend to have a higher bone density.
He was fit as anyone on the base, but still had to do the “dunk test” to get a medical waiver to keep from being put on the weight management program which would have gotten him passed over for O-5.
https://www.operationalmedicine.org/...e/40050200.pdf
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/...1935.tb02118.x
https://academic.oup.com/jcem/articl...23249#62884704
07-02-2021, 04:12 AM
#210
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If you meet the 3000TT and have someone to vouch for you I'm sure it's a matter of waiting to get a call. It's all been said before, but the interviewing process is a lot more about whether someone wants to sit next to you for 4 days than it is about your logbook. I have flown with all kinds here and 97% are great people and great pilots. Only 1% slipped thru the cracks and/or became dingleberries when they got here. And the other 2% are great in one of the two categories.
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