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Originally posted by Cdeyo:
giblackjack,

Thanks for the info. But I have another question. Is it like the boyscouts? Do you do alot in the community? Do you have to parade or anything, or go to schools, or what? What did YOU do for your meetings and such?

Thanks,

Cdeyo

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Originally posted by Cdeyo:
Hey Everyone,

Im 16 years old and am interested in being a pilot. ( Not sure if I should go Air Force, or Navy) But I heard about Civil Air Patrol (aka CAP). Its for kids 12-21 years old I think? I was just wondering if anyone knew about it. What is it like? Somebody said it was like the cub scouts for Aviation? Any information would be good. I read a couple of pamphlet's on it and I know a little about it... But I wanted to hear from someone who participated in it.

Thanks

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Originally posted by rppearso:
I sounds like a bunch of bull shiting around and not to much flying. Why even call it AIR patrol if there is very little flying involved and a lot of bull shiting. I dont get it, they dident even have the flight manuals on loaner for testing for ground school for your pilots licence or for your check ride. So many layers of bull shit in the military so little flight. If you want to be a pilot dont go in the military unless you are ready to take the flying leap in to the air force academy and hope to God you get a pilot slot after 4 years of bull shiting around oh and ohhh they might let you fly a glider WTF ever. Just make bank and buy your own plane, write your own ticket, you will spend less time making the money than you will with all the bull shitting around you will do with the military.

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Originally posted by rppearso:
Dude could you tune it down even I appologized for the swearing. I was in CAP in AFROTC in college before I joined the guard (got out after year 2). Yea we did the whole fly the plane for an hour straight and level, but flying is all about landing and taking off and we never even stalled the plane in CAP, CAP flying was incredibly boring. When I started real flight training thats when it became interesting, take offs, landings, and finally solo flight on a runway that was being repaired so only half the width was avalible along with a cross wind now that was fun then maybe swing over to the neigboring town (within 50 miles) for a cheese burger. So take a chill pill dude and when you actually become a pilot (if thats your thing) you will see how lame CAP really is, its all about the Benjamin's (probably the wrong spelling but I dont really care), if you got the money you can get real flight training but dont expect it in the military unless you make that flying leap landing through the AFA.

BTW im so lazy that I am a chemical engineer from colorado school of mines with one year to test for my chemical PE and am a pilot working on purchasing my own plane (extra 300), I guess it does not get any lazier than that, lol. I joined the guard to fly choppers on the weekends or during state disasters but I had no idea the BS that would be involved, there was so much BS I was drowning in it.

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Originally posted by rppearso:
What different carrer options do they show other than flying? I also thought the CAP was suppost to supplement the park service during fires etc which is all flight related. Because they are an "AIR PATROL" I figured they would at least have the ground school flight manuals on loaner and offer real flight lessons. BTW you can get your pilots licence at age 16 so if someone wants to do it CAP ought to offer discounts/some free REAL flight training.

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Originally posted by rppearso:
I guess, but being called a civil AIR patrol they ought to offer much much more flying opprotunities. Maybe that was just a poor assumption on my part, I did learn that cash is never a bad assumption for getting what you want though, so that is the route I took.