Rated Flyer 4 Life

Makes sense. I guess it all comes down to money at the end of the day. I guess if we were in a large scale conflict or if the demand would outweigh the cost you would see things like this happening more often. What about a guy transitioning from a heavy to a bomber?

I’ve heard rumors about how they are trying to experiment with getting fighter qual’d straight out of the T-6 and skipping 38s. There was an article out about it a few months ago…here’s the link https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/41789/the-truth-about-the-air-forces-biggest-changes-to-pilot-training-since-the-dawn-of-the-jet-age

Still keep UPT hires, but increase the TX slots so they could get more people into fighters if there is in fact a shortage.

Why does the Air Force not have more TX fighter slots? I feel like it would be less of a risk to take an already qualified pilot who could have gone fighters, but chose heavies and put them through a TX course than it would be to hire a UPT guy off the street. No offense to UPT hires but a rated pilot already knows how to fly the Air Force way…I’m just thinking if there is a fighter pilot shortage this could be a solution to it. Thoughts?

How long do you have to serve AD if you go to TPS? Anyone know guard/reserve people that have successfully gotten into TPS?

I wonder if it’s because they only have a certain amount of transition slots available per year and then they want to make sure someone can get through the training.

Has anyone heard of guys/gals who were rated pilots in other airframes who then later transitioned over to a guard/reserve fighter slot?

Yeah definitely. Keep at it and research/network/grow as much as possible. Great advice bro