Hi all,If you haven't downloaded the EDDW scenery by Oliver Pabst, you should! This is just incredible freeware scenery. It has a jetway that actually moves to your airplane, fuel trucks, catering trucks, a configuration program, a huge user manual and all the fixings you get in payware scenery. My question is, does anyone know of any other freeware sceneries with this kind of detail? Especially the moving jetways, I was blown away that this was freeware.Jeff USAF

As far as extras, Oliver Pabst sceneries might be the best out there. Not sure which one of his has it, but there's a "Follow Me" truck that actually comes out and gets you, first time I saw that in a scenery. Oliver, you need to do some sceneries in the U.S.!!!BTW, Jeff, what AFSC? I'm thinking something on AWACS? There's a few of us Air Force guys here on AVSIM.

1A451, lol, AWACS, prepare yourself for pain. What's your current job at this time and are you thinking of retraining or are you not in the Air Force yet?Jeff USAF

Haha, no chance of me going to AWACS. No, I'm already in the AF, C-130 Pilot at Little Rock I am. Getting ready to go to Laughlin to train guys in the T-1.

Sweet job! I have a couple more years of college, then I will apply for a pilot spot. I am working on my instrument rating right now so that I will have a high (picsem?) score, I don't exactly know what it stands for, but I was talking with 2Lt who just came from UPT who used to be an enlisted crew guy on AWACS, he said that if I get my instrument I will be more likely to get accepted. I will probably be 26 when I get my History degree so hopefully I will get accepted the first time, because I think 30 is the cut off age. Do you have any kind of info about this that you could share.Thanks,Jeff

Of course I do!I was a prior enlisted guy, worked Security Police for my four year enlistment, then went to ROTC for two years, got the commission and did two years as an intel officer. I applied for pilot training after that.The PCSM score is a combination of your AFOQT (air force officer qualification test) (the pilot, navigator, and verbal portions), the number of flight hours you have, and some weird way they figure out the little hand-eye coordination test. At least that's the way it was way back when I applied for pilot training. The flight hours you accumulate towards your PCSM score go by a weird scale, one hour adds a lot, then curiously enough, it starts to decrease in importance. Just having an instrument ticket is not a guarantee of course of getting a pilot slot. Out of ROTC/OTS, really it comes down to three things, 1. grades, 2. AFOQT scores and participation, and 3. (weirdly enough) your physical fitness scores. Sometimes I think the most important is the physical fitness scores, but you never know.A good place to look for info. is at Baseops.net, in the forum sections, there's all kinds of people asking questions about how to get into pilot training and all the different routes to get there.If you've got more detailed questions, email me, use the email in the AVSIM email system, look me up in the global email address, or at [email protected] If I don't know the answer, I know I could at least find it.Good luck on getting to pilot training, even with all the qualifications and stuff, it really is 90% perserverance, 10% everything else.

Thanks! I hate working out, my fitness scores suck and I'm not even overweight! Oh well.Jeff USAF