He will now start the competition all over again as a T1 track UPT student.
The slate in a way is wiped clean.
~ Clean because this is all new academics, sims and flights.
~ Not so much, because he is still in the same squadron, so they know him and his abilities.
~~ Think elementary school. T6 was 1st grade. Now he is in 2nd grade at the same school. The principal has not change. The T6 and T1 pilots have not changed. They talk about the student.
He will go through academics, check flight, and sims again. Same 88. 89 rides apply. The difference is it is the T1 course, and the others in the T38 will have their own process.
Approximately 3-4 weeks out they will have a DROP night. Depending on how your DS does will be what he gets from the drop. Fencer or my DS did well in the T1 phase, thus they both got their 1st choice.
~ Your DS if I am right will also drop RPAs.
~ At Laughlin, they do it by last name.
~~ I still laugh at that drop night. Fencer and I were on the phone (landline) and our DSs significant others were calling on a cell phone connected to someone there. In other words we played telephone tag. DS handed his cell phone to a friend so his fiance could here and she connected us via conference call app, and I than relayed it to fencer.
~~~ He was in TX, his fiance was in NC, we were in VA, and Fencer was in PA.
Winging is huge. So make plans now. At Laughlin, for our DS they kick it off on Friday night with a cocktail party. Saturday is breakfast at the O Club, winging, pictures by a T38 or 1. Saturday night is a black tie/suit event. They will wear their mess dress.
~ Some students will also be able to set up simulator rides between the pics on the flight line after winging and the formal.
After all of that is done, they will than probably be sent water survival and SERE. That takes about 6-9 weeks.
~ My DS was sent water 1st and then SERE. Fencers did SERE 1st and than water.