USAF Advanced Instrument School

Despite all the illness, we made it! Congrats AIS Class 26–03.

AIS Class 26-02 DG! Done Graduated

A little belated but congrats to AIS Class 25-11

Another group of qualified IRC Instructors!

✈️ The Negative-C? The Inverse-C? Whatever you called it… it’s circling the drain.

🧭 The Negative-C icon is being removed from FAA and DoD FLIP. The updated FAA & DoD legends says the icon can be ignored. While easy to say in the US, we USAF pilots fly in other locations or use other FLIP that use it, or don’t, or sometimes do/don’t depending on which design criteria is being applied…so it’s not that simple for us.

🚀 To help USAF aircrew navigate this transition, we’ve launched a brand-new Hot Topics Briefing. It covers the 5x Ws + H (who what when where why + how) on the removal of the icon.

🚨 Spoiler alert for USAF aircrew…just follow vol 3 guidance (for now).
👀 If you see the negative C, apply expanded criteria.
🙈 If you do NOT see the negative C, apply the legacy criteria (the criteria formally known as standard 🕺).

📸 Checkout the photos to see where you can find the briefing (vintage AIS artwork included for free)

📧 An AFFSA Message will be sent to the MAJCOMs with additional info / guidance, undoubtedly an FCIF message to follow, all at the speed of staff 🐢

Job well done Class 25-10

Congrats to 25-09. You survived the heat!

Congratulations to class 25-08! Hope y’all had as much fun as we did.

Congratulations Class 25-07! It was a long two weeks but y’all made it a memorable one. Best of luck teaching IRC.

(And thanks for sharing some of your memes)

Congratulations class 25-06!

Congratulations to class 25-05! Thanks for all the tough questions 😅

Congratulations to class 25-04!! Y’all were an excellent class to start the year off with. ☺️