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mdc92003

mdc92003

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Is it true that the flight training earned in the USAF does not earn FAA Ratings??? I have heard you do in the Navy and Army but the not the AF. Just a random question, thought someone may know. Thanks.
 
mdc92003 said:
Is it true that the flight training earned in the USAF does not earn FAA Ratings??? I have heard you do in the Navy and Army but the not the AF. Just a random question, thought someone may know. Thanks.
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Not automaticly, in any of the branches.

Once you have been "winged" you can take a test and you will be given a Comercial certificate in the appropriate catagory and class of aircraft.
 
USMCmech said:
Not automaticly, in any of the branches.

Once you have been "winged" you can take a test and you will be given a Comercial certificate in the appropriate catagory and class of aircraft.
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:yeahthat:.

The test is the MCA (military competency-aircraft) or the MCH (military competency-helicopter). I took it about 5 years ago or so, and it was really easy. I think I studied a couple of hours over the course of a weekend and took it monday morning, and aced it in about 10 minutes.

Anyhow, you take the test and you get your commercial, multi-engine license and your instrument rating (for Air Force UPT, anyway). You will also get a type rating in the Beech 400 and the Mitsubishi Diamond Jet if you take it right out of UPT and you went T-1 track. If you take it from the C-12/T44 track I think you will get typed in King Airs, but I'm not entirely sure about that. If you go -38 track you will also be commercial multiengine, but it will be centerline thrust limited. Not sure about a type rating for those guys, either.

I waited a couple of years until I was in the KC-135 and my T-1 stuff was no longer valid, so I got my type in the B-707 when I did mine.

No matter what, you'll still need to get a single-engine add-on or get transfered to a single engine aircraft if you want to fly single engine airplanes on the civilian side.

BTW, there is also a new rule which lets us military instructor-types take a second "military equivalency" test and get your CFI, CFII, and MEI tickets, but I haven't done that one yet... so no intel.
 
fish314 said:
No matter what, you'll still need to get a single-engine add-on or get transfered to a single engine aircraft if you want to fly single engine airplanes on the civilian side.
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A few years back a retired O-5 B-1 pilot applied for a job at Martinaire. He didn't understand why he was unqualified to fly the Caravan.
 
And just to confirm, the hours accumulated in the military don't count in the civilian world to towards ratings (ATP, part 135 min.), right?
 
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