Gentlemen,
As an Army Aviation Warrant type I find this topic very interesting. To me it just seems like there is to much tradition in naval aviation to go this route. The army program has been around since the mid 50's. There has been some major growing pains and there has alway been an us against them mentality between warrants and the O's. Probably like the JOPA.
The best part of the program is that you get very skilled aviators who stay in the cockpit their entire career. The down side is the O's get the short end of the stick when it comes to flying. I'm an I.P. and over the last few years I have seen my fair share of 0-4's and 0-5's with less than 1000 hours.And most of these guys have never been PIC's ( HAC's) . So you have an 0-5 w/ less than a thousand hours leading a bunch of warrants with 2000 to 3000 hours. It doesn't work that well at times.
Over the past year the idea of LDO's replacing aviation warrnats has come up. Like a previous post said, most army warrant would rather go the route of LDO.
It will be intresting to see what actually happens with all of this.
As an Army Aviation Warrant type I find this topic very interesting. To me it just seems like there is to much tradition in naval aviation to go this route. The army program has been around since the mid 50's. There has been some major growing pains and there has alway been an us against them mentality between warrants and the O's. Probably like the JOPA.
The best part of the program is that you get very skilled aviators who stay in the cockpit their entire career. The down side is the O's get the short end of the stick when it comes to flying. I'm an I.P. and over the last few years I have seen my fair share of 0-4's and 0-5's with less than 1000 hours.And most of these guys have never been PIC's ( HAC's) . So you have an 0-5 w/ less than a thousand hours leading a bunch of warrants with 2000 to 3000 hours. It doesn't work that well at times.
Over the past year the idea of LDO's replacing aviation warrnats has come up. Like a previous post said, most army warrant would rather go the route of LDO.
It will be intresting to see what actually happens with all of this.