RAFFT Failures, are they being booted out

[Dragoon]

A few of us were having a whinge about the test a while back, and one wiley old FS mused that as the girlies have to get half of what a bloke does in the tests, (speaking of the mid-twenties range) then that suggests that a girlie is half as effective as a man.

Therefore, he suggested that for every man he has out on Det toiling in the sun, he'll need two girlies to do the same job.

Not much equality in that train of thought!

 

[magic]

Civ Pol only do a fitness test in their first 2 years of service and then no testing. Currently under review though.

 

[Brick Tamland]

Would it be possible to get the Physical Education Flight to sign off a declaration before taking the fitness test? Stating that if you should become injured whilst attempting the MSFT that they are held responsible? I don't know what would happen if someone did become injured though.

We have to sign a declaration before the MSFT so why not them?

I personally pass my 6 monthly test but I believe that the levels are currently high for most Airmen..not Airwomen

 

[CIS Tech]

As covered in numerous other threads the VO2 maximal test is gender fair given that it has been calculated taking into account the physiological differences between the sexes.

I always thought that women had bigger lungs. DT_Xtremez_14:

 

[he_who_dares_rodney]

I personally pass my 6 monthly test but I believe that the levels are currently high for most Airmen..not Airwomen

Just a quick question

Who actuallt sets the fitness tests levels/
Is it a joint Army,Navy, RAF test or just RAF specific

Just wondering because fitnesslevels in the RAF may not need to be as high as in the Infantry for instance

 

[tacadmin]

Each service sets their own levels (as far as i'm aware). Although the 'Pre-Joining Fitness Test' run times are identical for the RAF & RN so there may be a bit of liaison between the services - or one has copied the other?!

 

[Realist78]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but someone told me you couldn't get promoted if you were subject to formal warning?

So if this is true someone who is permently downgraded and can't deploy or do guard can be promoted but someone who f*cked up there RAFFT for whatever reason can't be promoted for a time?[/QUOTE]


Yep, seems to be about right?

 

[timaloy]

the navy only do 9.2 on msft and no press ups or sit ups. the civvy police did do same levels as us (and still do in scotland) however a male copper in bedfordshire sued the police as he went for an armed police job and just missed his fitness level, a female who got the lower level, got the job. He won his case on sexual descrimination or something, so they lowered the fitness standards into line with the females and introduced higher fitness levels for specialist jobs