CAFB: Best performance at FAIP

COLUMBUS AFB, Miss. - Columbus Air Force Base sent some 65 pilots to this year’s FAIP Flag competition from Aug. 9-11, hosted at the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base, New Orleans, where they won overall best performance amongst all the competitions held. All three training aircraft - the T-6 Texan II, T-38 Talon and T-1 Jayhawk - were used during the flying competition. “We need to keep doing this kind of competition because it challenges the instructor force to better themselves and refine their skills as both an aviator and instructor pilot,” said Capt. Gared Chapman, 41st Flying Training Squadron instructor pilot at CAFB. After graduating from pilot training the newest aviators are given an assigned aircraft but some aviators don’t immediately go to that aircraft, instead they return to trainer aircraft to teach as instructor pilots. These flyers are termed first assignment instructor pilots (FAIPs). Capt. Maxwell Adler of the 41st FTS won the low-level time over target competition in a T-6 together with other instructor pilots from the 41st. (Source: Columbus AFB 0/619) https://www.columbus.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/1940676/team-blaze-triumphs-over-the-competition-at-2019-faip-flag-championship/