Carrier Qualifications Still Happening For A Few Navy Fighter Pilots In Training

E-2 pilots and foreign student pilots still need to do carrier qualifications, but huge changes to the naval aviation ...
Matt Guthmiller on MSN

Inside an L-39 fighter jet training flight - then the student took the controls

A routine introduction quickly turned into an unforgettable adventure as an experienced PC-12 pilot climbed into the cockpit of the legendary L-39 Albatros. Flying through spectacular mountain scenery ...
The National Interest

How a Generation of US Navy Pilots Came to Love (and Hate) the T-45 Goshawk

The Navy’s designated trainer aircraft is somewhat more manageable for a trainee pilot than the F/A-18 Super Hornet—but that does not mean it is easy to fly. The T-45 Goshawk is an advanced jet ...
The National Interest

How Much Does It Cost to Train a US Air Force Pilot?

Pilot training costs are dependent on a number of factors—how expensive the plane is, how much maintenance it requires, how many instructors are available, and so on. Training a US Air Force pilot is ...
Flying

Single-Pilot Jets

Single-pilot jet operations have a mixed safety record due to significant gaps and minimal requirements in current FAA training and checking regulations for type ratings and recurrent proficiency.
AOL

How Sheppard AFB is preparing NATO’s next generation of pilots

WICHITA FALLS (KFDX/KJTL) — The Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training Program, known as ENJJPT, is the world’s only internationally manned and led pilot training program. The program brings together ...
Jane's Information Group

T-7 ‘offers different way' for RAF to do pilot training, say BAE Systems

An artist's rendering of the Boeing-Saab T-7 Red Hawk that BAE Systems is offering to the RAF as a Hawk T2 replacement. (BAE Systems) The Boeing-Saab T-7 Red Hawk will afford the UK “a different way” ...