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AIM/FAR 2008
Military Flight
Aptitude Tests
Officer
Candidate
Tests
Air Force
Officer's Guide
Airman's Guide
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Typical Training Day in ENJJPT
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Life as an Officer in ENJJPT
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ENJJPT Flight Syllabus
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Physical Fitness and the
FACT
ENJJPT Phase 2 - Primary Flight Training
Your Primary phase of
pilot training is divided into 5 stages. You will fly the T-37 in the
following stages:
 1.
Basic Contact Stage
Here you will learn the fundamentals of flight under Visual Flight Rules (VFR).
You will practice take offs, landings, and touch-and-goes. You will build
your confidence as you perfect these maneuvers. Landings are done in the
military overhead traffic pattern - distinctly different than civilian
traffic patterns. Also, you will be practicing simulated emergency
procedures including no flap landings, engine-out, and forced landing
procedures. You will start all your contact work with an Anti-G Straining
Maneuver (AGSM) that tests your G-tolerance that day, and gets you warmed
up. In the working areas, you will perform stalls, spins, and recoveries
from both.
In the first contact
stage, the only aerobatics you will practice are the loop and aileron
roll. After approximately 15-20 hours of instruction, you will get to
perform your first solo! Your confidence will soar as you take the plane
solo - first in the traffic pattern only, and then out to the working
areas to perform aerobatics in later flights. Nothing beats walking out
to the plane alone and flying it without the instructor!
2. Instrument
Stage
Next, you will learn the basics of instrument flight. Academically, you
will take the basic and advanced instrument classes, and then you will
apply this knowledge in the flight simulator and aircraft. You will study
USAF instrument flight procedures and regulations. Your work begins with
establishing a good instrument scan. You will progress to flying
instrument approaches both locally at your home field and on the road at
unfamiliar airfields. Near the end of the instrument stage, you and an
instructor will take the plane cross-country and practice instrument
approaches at unfamiliar fields at a variety of out-of-area destinations.
While flying in this stage, you will be busy studying and memorizing
instrument procedures, flight rules and regulations, and of course chair
flying instrument flight.
3. Low-Level Stage
The next stage
of training involves low-level navigation flying. This unit is only 7
rides long and then you will take another check ride. You will plan and
fly one of the 4 local T-37 low-level VFR routes. You will get a winds
forecast, analyze it and calculate how it will affect each leg of your
low-level route. Chart reading, navigation, and time control are concepts
being trained in this stage. Your goal is to identify and "hit" each turn
point and the final point on time and on target. Many people enjoy this
phase the most, but this phase requires the most out-of-class time as each
low-level map can take up to 4 hours to prepare, and you will need 2
different ones for each flight (your primary one and another one for a
weather back-up)!
4.
Advanced-Contact Stage
Here you will continue to perfect what you learned in the basic contact
stage, as well as adding the following aerobatic maneuvers to your
repertoire: immelman, split-s, cuban-eight, clover leaf, and barrel roll.
You will still have approximately 8 solo rides in this phase as well. You
will also have 1 flight at night where you practice night overhead
patterns, something done only at ENJJPT and very rarely in the “real
world.”
5. Formation Stage
For the final T-37 phase, you will fly 2-ship formation with your
classmates. You will taxi, line up, and do a wing take off in formation.
Once in the working areas, you will perform your maneuvers in formation.
The 'fingertip' formation is just a few feet away from your wingman. You
also practice route position, rejoins, and the extended trail exercise,
which is kind of like playing follow the leader through the sky.
Teamwork, communication, and of course smooth flying is required for
successful formation flights. You will get to practice flying as the lead
aircraft as well as a wingman. Your confidence and skills culminate in
your formation solo flight - where you are a wingman solo in your aircraft
and are flying in formation with another aircraft. This is one of the
most rewarding flights in the program.
Check rides are flight
evaluations - think of them as mid-term exams. They count for a hug
portion of your grades. Each check ride involves an evaluation of your
flight maneuvers as well as detailed one-on-one questions and answers
session with your evaluator. Generally, a stressful event, check rides
are flown at the end of each of the above stages, with a total of 5 check
rides in the T-37 phase: the C-9 check ride (basic contact) instrument
check ride, low-level check ride, advanced contact check ride, and
formation check ride. At this point, after the challenging daily sorties
and demanding check rides, you will progress to Phase 3 and learn to fly
the T-38.
ENJJPT Phase 3 - Advanced Flight Training
1. Contact Stage
Here you will take the fundamentals that you learned in the T-37 and speed
them up to be able to fly the supersonic T-38A Talon. The flights in this
stage will consist of pattern and area work similar to what was
accomplished in the T-37 contact phase. There is only 1 contact check
ride, and after it you will have 8 more contact flights to stay current on
those maneuvers. One of these rides will be the “zoom-and-boom” ride
where you will be allowed to do an unrestricted afterburner climb to FL390
and then go supersonic!
2. Instrument
Stage
Instruments in the T-38 are also very similar to what was performed in the
T-37 with 2 notable differences. First, almost all instrument flying as a
student pilot will be done while sitting in the back seat of the T-38, as
opposed to the front seat for all other sorties. Also, due to the speed
of the Talon, your out-and-back and cross-country distances will be
greater, and you will do more of those out-and-backs as opposed to the
local missions. Included in the instrument phase after the check ride is
a solo out-and-back, 2 night instrument rides where you come back and do a
lot of patterns, and even a night solo!
3. Basic Formation
Stage
The basic formation phase is comparable to the entire formation phase in
T-37s. You will do pretty much the same maneuvers as you did in the
Tweet. Not much difference at all, except for a lot of practice doing
formation landings. There is a check ride in this phase. You will also
do a night formation ride.
 4.
Advanced Formation Stage
For the advanced formation phase, you will continue to add-on building
blocks to what will eventually lead you to be able to fly fighter aircraft
in a tactical role. There are 2 major parts to advanced formation. The
first is learning tactical position and tactical turns. In the tactical
position, you are about a mile away from the other aircraft, and you learn
how to make turns from that position. The second part is called Fluid
Maneuvering (FM), which is like kindergarten BFM. In FM, you start about
1.5 miles from the other aircraft and use turn circles and angles to get
about 1000’ behind the other aircraft, who is in a turn. There is also a
check ride to end this phase.
5. Low-Level Stage
The last phase
of T-38s is the low-level phase. The first 3 rides are the same as in the
T-37, except they are flown at 300-420 KIAS ground speed. Then, you have
5 rides in which you fly low-level in a 2-ship formation. This phase ends
with a check ride.
 6.
Four-Ship Familiarization
In what is
usually your last 4 rides of pilot training, you will fly 4 four-ship
rides. They are familiarization only, and there is no check ride. In the
first ride, you will practice maneuvers that you did in basic formation
such as 4-ship wing work in the fingertip position, and in the last 3
rides you will work on four-ship tactical position and tactical turns.
These are usually very low-threat, enjoyable rides.
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