10 years after winging. Based on the wait to start training, plus the 53 weeks of training, it generally works out to 12 years of total time.
When I was in the Navy it was 6 yrs for both pilots and NFOs. I am glad to see that is creeping north.
In Spain the commitment is basically 40 yrs, and if you want to get out earlier, you or your employer must pay for the cost of training.
I think that should be done in the US as well.
40 years?!!! What are you going to do with a bunch of 20 year 0-5s that hate their jobs?
Maybe it's just me, but I think wearing chicken plate when it's 130 degrees F in an un-airconditioned cockpit, flying for 8 hours a day, away from your family for a year or more at a stretch, with some idiot trying to kill you is more than enough "pay back" for that "million dollar flight education." Doing that to the age of 55???? I don't think so. It was hard enough doing it in my 40's.You bring up a valid point. It would take a major systemic change. 40 yrs seems a little long for me. I think 20 outta do it.
The country I was talking about, a person out of the academy would be looking at retirement at about 55 I think, and would spend a whole lot of time at the o-3 level. The major point is that getting the proverbial "million dollar flight education", means you are expected to be a "lifer".
If it were up to me, they would overwhelmingly be a bunch of CWO-4/5s who flew for 20 years.
Is the Spanish military doing that in Iraq? Nope.
Just making a point. No reason to bag on our allies. The military dont get to pick the CIC, just like us.
That wasn't my point at all. The point was to de-tangle two completely separate issues that had been mashed together.
The first post discussed the 40-year commitment that aviators in Spain have.
The second part mixed in a description of the CAFTT flying that US forces are doing in Iraq.
I was pointing out that the two ideas had nothing to do with one another.
That wasn't my point at all. The point was to de-tangle two completely separate issues that had been mashed together.
The first post discussed the 40-year commitment that aviators in Spain have.
The second part mixed in a description of the CAFTT flying that US forces are doing in Iraq.
I was pointing out that the two ideas had nothing to do with one another.
All O-5s hate their jobs, at least in the Navy, when they are chained to a desk in some crap hole.40 years?!!! What are you going to do with a bunch of 20 year 0-5s that hate their jobs?