Honestly, it's mostly current pipeline the AF uses.
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T-45C Replacement
- Thread starter Birdbrain
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From what I hear, their fleet squadrons aren't very happy about it either...
The trainer community in general is in shambles. Too many decades of neglect.
I've said this a few times here. My brother is an E-3/Kc-135/AF 707/ now B-1 type IQT IP, (and an evaluator, and a depot FCF guy, and a numbered Air Force Stan/Eval checker... You get the idea- he doesn't suck).
He says the most nervous, and then the most scared, that he would never meet his in utero son, has been teaching a recent UPT grad how to fly form and take gas on the tanker.
The AF has completely punted pilot training- but the generals are happy because the excell spreadsheet boxes are green.
The question is, when mission readiness starts to suffer, will the right causal factors be identified?
My guess is no.
Probably not. He reminds me that "at least when your new LT fucks it up you don't die with him." A blessing and a curse. The unmanned community has our own training problems.
Our lives are never on the line, but other lives are. When we conduct a strike our goal is for those who should die will die, and those who should live will live. Sometimes we get that wrong.
Ultimately the fleet should never get someone from the training command who isn't 100% full up and ready to do their job on day one.
Agreed. The training command is abdicating a lot of that responsibility to the fleet. The USAF is a lot further along in that regression than the USN… for now.