More in the news lately about additional testing needed on the F-35 and delays in getting them operational. A lot of people look at the delays and wonder if the F-35 is even going to be worth it. But what they don’t realize is that delays are par for the course, and that in the end it WILL be worth it.
No experimental flight program in the history of aviation had ever been accomplished on schedule, within the projected budget, or without problems. Delays are a part of testing and development, and when there are delays, the pilots and engineers doing the testing, are simply going to throw in the towel and say, “This isn’t working!”
It’s the same with your career and your life. It’s extremely rare that ANYONE, even fighter pilots have anything go just right in their lives on the first try. You think Chuck Yeager just breezed through test pilot school? Think again! Even with hundreds of hours of combat flying under his belt, he almost washed out of test pilot school! Neil Armstrong may have been the first guy to walk on the moon, but what most people don’t even realize is that he was REJECTED from the astronaut program in the beginning, even though he was an ace in the Korean War!
Your career trajectory is liable to be very much like these guys were. It’s kind of like the trajectory of a guided missile; you don’t just fire, fly straight and true and hit your target. You fire, the target moves so the missile has to make corrections to get to its target, and it may have to make a dozen corrections or more before it finally does.
Your career is very much like the development of the F-35. It may take a few corrections before you finally get to the target, but when you do, you’ll be set in the career of your dreams for many years to come, just like the F-35 will benefit the services and our nation for many years to come after it becomes operational…and YOU will be one of the anointed ones in its cockpit!
The Afterburner Club is your one-stop resource for all of the information you need to make those zig-zag corrections to get to that cockpit. You don’t just go through the information once and then put it into action and see what happens. You go through, start the implementation process of doing it, encounter your obstacles, go through the information again to see what you can do about it, do it, then encounter your next obstacle and repeat the process until you have succeeded. It as a resource that will hold your hand through the entire process of becoming a fighter pilot.
But you have to act now, one of the values that the selection board looks for is initiative, and to show that, you’ve got to get started IMMEDIATELY!
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