ENJJPT PCSM

[HopefulCadet]

Hello all,
I am a 3* and took the TBAS today and got my PCSM: 75 with 17 flight hours. AFOQT Pilot score was a 99. I am looking at possibly shooting for ENJJPT. GPA is 3.95 in a tech major and I am on the jump team. Do I need to retake the TBAS/get a couple more flight hours? 3 more would put me at an 80 PCSM per the website. Thanks!

 

[AirDad]

Reading your post today (almost 2 years later).

Hello all,
I am a 3* and took the TBAS today and got my PCSM: 75 with 17 flight hours. AFOQT Pilot score was a 99. I am looking at possibly shooting for ENJJPT. GPA is 3.95 in a tech major and I am on the jump team. Do I need to retake the TBAS/get a couple more flight hours? 3 more would put me at an 80 PCSM per the website. Thanks!

Reading your post today (almost 2 years later). Would love to hear how you ended up? Did you make it into ENJJPT?

 

[Humey]

My advice 4 years later is that he doesn't have to retake the TBAS. With a 75 score, I think he did very well. The answer was more flight hours. I think mid-70s with no hour was as high as you can get. My son had a AFOQT pilot score of 95 and wound up with a 70 PCSM score with zero hours. He wound up with a 98 with 201 hours.

 

[moho]

My advice 4 years later is that he doesn't have to retake the TBAS. With a 75 score, I think he did very well. The answer was more flight hours. I think mid-70s with no hour was as high as you can get. My son had a AFOQT pilot score of 95 and wound up with a 70 PCSM score with zero hours. He wound up with a 98 with 201 hours.

What year was this? They cap hours at 40 or 41 now, I can't remember. It accounts for less of the total PCSM score than it used to. The average PCSM for last year's Rated Board was 78-ish, I am sure ENJJPT is much higher. They are raising the standards for it because of limited space, even begging people selected for ENJJPT to opt into UPT because of the 2+ year casual time.

 

[Bigrod]

I think at this point it is better to go to any UPT base that you can get to as quickly as possible. You aren’t guaranteed T38’s there but you get your wings and start paying back your 10 year commitment rather than waiting for enjjpt that is now almost a 3 year wait.

 

[Small_Goose]

Average PCSM for USAFA cadets is much less than 78 for pilot slots. At USAFA 78 is a decent score for ENJJPT, but of course a few more hours can't hurt. Everything we've been hearing from the ENJJPT IP's that visited is that if you want to be a fighter pilot, you should 100% try to go to Shep. Other UPT bases are experiencing the same effect of the T-38 engine contract issue. The result: very for T-38 slots per class. Apparently some classes have had one or even zero T-38 slots. Finally, Shep expects the wait time to be down to < 1 year by the time 2024 graduates.

Patience is a virtue and I personally would much rather wait 1-2 years for an almost guaranteed fighter slot instead of rolling the dice at Vance.

 

[AF Roots]

Slightly off topic but can anyone chime in how important PCSM (AFOQT, TBAS and Flying Hours) are for being evaluated for a pilot slot out of USAFA vs say class ranking OPA?

 

[moho]

I wish 78 was an average PCSM for ENJJPT from my commissioning source. I have a 98.

 

[Small_Goose]

Slightly off topic but can anyone chime in how important PCSM (AFOQT, TBAS and Flying Hours) are for being evaluated for a pilot slot out of USAFA vs say class ranking OPA?

For pilot slots, OPA is 50% and PCSM is 50%.
OPA is 50% GPA, 40% military appraisal, and 10% physical fitness appraisal. To my knowledge the breakdown of PCSM is not released.

 

[JohnMcLane]

True story... details omitted to protect the innocent.
Enjjpt class. Height of War on Terror. CoS AF shows up drop night. "You are Godless communist terrorists if you don't want to fly UASs. Everyone in this class will fly UASs as an example to the Air Force". And people wonder why we have recruiting/retention problems.