Tips on signing up for RSAF pilot

uaremyfayth SG

Hi, i'm 20 and currently in Poly, doing a dip in aerospace engineering, i understand my dip has nothing related to bring a pilot, but i would like to know my chances =X
My eyesight is 6/6 as of 12/1/07
I have heard that the RSAF do not consider people who smoke, is that true?

Shotgun SG

Have you any experience in Youth Flying Club? Do you play a lot of flight sims, and enjoy flying?

How familiar are you with the physics of flight?

I feel that you should only sign on with RSAF is you really have the interest, and not consider being a combat pilot as just a career opportunity. If you really have genuine interest in flying, your knowledge about it, the machines, will show. Recruitment officers can see that.

uaremyfayth SG

Well, i do know the basic physics on why a plane can fly, my modules cover aeronautical engineering science, i do have a strong interest in flying.
I failed to join YFC(youth flying club) because my CCA and timetable don't fit well.

It has always been a childhood dream to be a pilot, which is why i took up Aerospace Engineering DIP, if i cannot fly, i want to let the pilot fly with a piece of mind.

Nuad SG

my advice is to try and pursue your dream until the end, in bmt i applied for it. being a fighter pilot was the strongest dream in my life, i passed the computerised test, and i went for the medical, but i was then called up for a second medical. supposedly there was a problem with my heart.

during that time i contracted lung infection and had attn C for 1 week plus, i missed SIT test and was still on status when i returned and could not go the make up sit test.

i was heavily demoralised as i inferred that i could not go to OCS thus it was impossible for me to be a pilot, so i canceled my second medical and application.

but until now i wonder, and its a big regret to me, i should have saw it through to the end, and had an answer even though it was a big propability of a no, instead of now i wonder if i had continued would there be a small chance.

so good luck! its good to know what planes singapore operates! like F-16 , F-5's, C-130's, kc-135's. and future planes being aquired, such as F-15 SG, i heard that they would ask sometimes in the interview.

d3athy SG

even if u wan to sign up for being a pilot ... u nd to obtain a place in ocs and clear it after bmt be4 they consider signing u up i guess ... thats wat they told me ...
i still waiting for the interview .. its been like 5 months since my computerised test ....

cheeze SG

If you're still in NS, I think the window for cross over from whichever service into airforce for pilot training is up to 6mths from your enlistment date or 6mths prior to your ORD.
thats the only 2 windows if i'm not wrong.

for rsaf, u need to be qualified to go OCS because every pilot is an officer.
Or rather, you're an RSAF officer first and foremost, but your vocation is a pilot.
thats how they see it.

uaremyfayth SG

Thanks people, i’ll do more research on the requirements for OCS. ^^

gd4u SG

I knew 1 guy whom signed on as pilot, gave me the "what the fuk" look when i was talking about PC-21 n the S-211 Laughing

venny SG

well during bmt they will also come ask who wan sign on de. no worries..... Laughing

CM06 SG

To be RSAF Pilot, you must know how to keep your mouth shut first and foremost and all your past records and your families will probably be scrutinised big time. (no offense hor)

That aside, depending on your motor/calculator skills, you will be assigned to different planes.

Hint: The best pilots (I was told forgot whom but was a reg officer with friends in airforce) the BEST MOTOR pilots go to fly helicopter. Twisted Evil

tetsumi SG

a.... no leh...
no for the "up to 6mths from your enlistment date or 6mths prior to your ORD" n oso no for the "must be qualified to go OCS".

tetsumi SG

ur chance r entering depends on ur ownself, the tests u will take.
smokers? y not? but dun smoke so much lah, die young leh.

tetsumi SG

oh yah 1 last thing which i had mentioned in another thread abt pilot as well...

dun apply to be a pilot cos it's cool or the $$ is gd etc...
do it cos u like flying.

it will be gd if u have a chance to fly in a 2-seater plane wif youth flying club.
experience the difference between flying in a 2-seater plane n a boeing 747.
u will be utterly disappointed if u expect the comforts n controls of a boeing 747 in a military plane.

cheeze SG

that was what i was told by the recruitment office then. and what i'm told by my juniors now.
so it should still be accurate..

flash9933 SG

I applied for RSAF pilot a few months before my enlistment. But never hear from the recruitment at all and I also did not follow up on the status.

I was chopped during the 1st phase of flying course in YFC. Could it be due to this failure that RSAF deem I dun have flying quality or potential?

cheeze SG

don't think so. just call the recruitment and check on yr application if u're still interested. may have misplaced yrapplication or just too many applicants to process.

no harm calling to ask or reapply.

flash9933 SG

Forget to add in, this matter already more than 10 over years ... now I already ROD ... no more SAF stuff for me ...

But it is quite an experience to fly a Cessna back then ...

"Skylark 9xx, request taxi to runway 03, QNH 1010 ....."

cheeze SG

yfc is like a feeder school for rsaf....hehe

tetsumi SG

hmm... then i'm a special case then... Confused

cheeze SG

i guess the normal way is through the bmt + tri service then to airgrading, but they have to cater to people who went ndu/ commandos or other units.

so exceptions do apply i think. hey man, the airforce needs more people. the bigger the pool of trainees, the bigger the number you can pass out since the failure rate is so high.