sure about the pay scales?
Pay & Allowances
Officer
You will be appointed as an Officer Cadet (OFFCDT) and receive the following salary (excluding allowances) while undertaking Military (Initial Officer) Training and Employment Training:
Degree Qualified: $39,137 per year ($1,501 per fortnight).*
Non-degree Qualified: $34,533 per year ($1,324 per fortnight).*
Thats true,Also, with a degree you also get paid more.
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Thanks. If you need any help/want to know more about the testing process, let me know, i've helped a bunch of people privately with their FSP and OSB's before.but congrats on getting in Pilot Selection, i'm gonna try for that after Uni.
It doesn't depend on the degree, it depends on the job that you go into. For example, I could do a B.Arts at ADFA if I get a shit ATAR and still become a pilot, but someone else could also an a B.Arts and still become an ATCO. ATCO = 7 years IMPS, Pilot = 13.5. Big difference, same degree, different job.imps isn't that bad....9 year (including degree) if you do a 4 year course....
Yeh, definately, i didn't want to head straight into the RAAF out of school (i took alot of advice from pilots and others) and personally decided to do a degree as something to fall back on and i wasn't ready to commit for 10 yrs at 16 yrs of age, but theres always that chance that i will fail the medical due to worsening eye sight in say 4-5 yrs when i apply for pilot selection. However i dont mind being an officer in the Army or a navy sea diver or commandos so if i miss out of pilot selection i've got some options and if i dont suit that i can always fall back on my degree. Its a long way of doing it, but uni is awesome if u can go, do it, the best lifestyle and alot of opportunities (for exchange ect) however life in the ADF would be awesome as well, so i'm taking a yr off so i can be involved in ADF through out my degree (hoping to join res when i get back from gap year)Agreed with everything you've said Tim. The ROSO (also IMPS) is huge, but at the same time, I seriously can't see myself disliking the role as a pilot, so 13.5 years is nothing major for me. If I was accepted as an ATCO instead of a Pilot, then i'd tell ADFA to piss off, since ATCO for 7 years is just gay.
Thanks. If you need any help/want to know more about the testing process, let me know, i've helped a bunch of people privately with their FSP and OSB's before.
It's two joysticks, no feet pedals. Basically, left joystick moves the circle up and down, right joystick moves it left and right. It just tests your co-ordination, how well you can keep a 'missile lock', keeping the circle over the target, keeping it in the middle of a shape which rotates, etc etc. How can you prepare for it? Personally - I didn't. The only way I can think of preparing for it is to play a video game or something.but i know they test u on ur coordination with like 4 controls (2 hands, 2 feet) and u have to keep a dot in a circle kinda thing, is there anyway u can prepare for that?
It depends on my ATAR. If I get 80, i'll go B.Tech(Avn), if I get over 85, Aeronautical Engineering, and if I get less than 80, then B.Sc or B.Arts.what r u studying at ADFA aviation?
Ah you must still be at school, i wanted to study Aeronautical, but they dont offer it here in WA, so i decided to do civil, but if u can do aeronautical it looks good, but for some reason they gave us a list of all the job numbers of graduate engineers and aeronautical was the lowest, so dont expect the same number of job offers once u leave the RAAF (u probablly wont need it, seeing as tho ur a pilot) as say a mech student (civil was the highest, mech, enviro)It's two joysticks, no feet pedals. Basically, left joystick moves the circle up and down, right joystick moves it left and right. It just tests your co-ordination, how well you can keep a 'missile lock', keeping the circle over the target, keeping it in the middle of a shape which rotates, etc etc. How can you prepare for it? Personally - I didn't. The only way I can think of preparing for it is to play a video game or something.
Anyway, the whole testing procedure and lineup works like this:
YOU Session -> Specialist Testing - > Assessment Day - > Tamworth FSP -> OSB -> Letter of acceptance/rejection.
The hand-eye co-ordination stuff comes in at the specialist testing section. It's really just 4 hours of maths and problem solving papers, vocabulary, aviation reasoning, gauge reading and spatial orientation tests, along with the hand-eye stuff.
It depends on my ATAR. If I get 80, i'll go B.Tech(Avn), if I get over 85, Aeronautical Engineering, and if I get less than 80, then B.Sc or B.Arts.
FSP is 13 days in Tamworth - 12 days flying, the last day is the OSB.But that is interesting the recruitment process, seems to be even longer, how long does the FSP and OSB take? how long could u keep the missle lock on? haha.