2007-01-23 12:40:24 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Aircraft
step 1: Go see a USAF (or navy...they have pilots too) recruiter to see what you need to qualify...DO NOT ENLIST...YOU WANT A COMMISSION AS AN OFFICER!
step 2: Get a Bachelors degree in any subject.
step 2: Go back to see the USAF recruiter for OFFICERS and sign up.
Some recruiters will tell you anything to enlist...I was in for 10 years and never saw an enlisted man get to change over & fly. Stick to your guns and AIM HIGH!!!!
Also what tree8288 said is right too! but you'll get that info and more from the recruiter.
2007-01-23 12:54:13 · answer #1 · answered by fuzzbutt 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First off you must have a college degree. Second, you apply selection, and if you score high enough on the tests, you get selected for pilot training. To be selected for pilot training doesn't mean that you will be a fighter pilot. At the end of the flight school phase, you will be ranked on your ability, with the best being offered a fighter seat and the rest fall into the rest of the aircraft. The best pilots are in the fighters, the worst normally go to the older prop planes. Those that don't wash out that is.
2007-01-23 12:50:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
In order to fly in the USAF you have to be a Officer, and you can do that a few ways. The first would be to get into the USAF Academy which is no small feet in and of itself, and then you take classes while your there and when your done you have a degree in underwater basket weaving. Or you could go to ROTC or Reserve Officer Training Corps and become an officer that way then apply to get into flight school. Then when you are all done and get sent to a base as a pilot you can break the airplane and walk away. After you make the following write up in the aircraft forms "Does not work in OFF mode" or a favorite of mine "Dead bugs on canopy"...don't be a stick jockey unless you have common sense and have the ability to treat people the way you would want to be treated. Most get to a certain point and forget that their lives depend on that lowly mechanic who is covered in grease and jet fuel.
2007-01-24 02:34:07 · answer #3 · answered by knightflight26 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You must be a commissioned officer to be a pilot in the USAF. For that, you must have a college degree first. You can apply for flight school once you have your commission.
Since I don't know how old you are or what your current education situation is I really can't advise you any further.
To clear something up first, though. Not all flight billets require uncorrected 20/20 vision. Fighter billets DO require uncorrected 20/20 vision to get in although once you're in allowances are made for normal correctable deterioration as you age. For the tanker/trash-hauler track you only need vision corrected to 20/20 as long as it's 20/40 or better uncorrected. You may NOT have surgically corrected vision for any flight billet so skip the Lasic if you're not 20/20.
2007-01-23 13:53:02 · answer #4 · answered by Bostonian In MO 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would recommend ROTC. However, there is no guarantee of being a pilot, let alone a fighter pilot.
http://www.baseops.net/militarypilot/roadtowings.html
The site is basically good but watch out when they recommend that you buy things (study guides and such) However, after spending a few minutes looking around, I didn't see any wrong information.
You do NOT have to have 20/20 vision anymore
2007-01-23 13:41:52 · answer #5 · answered by Freya 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
enlist in the air force tell what ya want to do
2007-01-23 12:42:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
You have to have 20/20 vision uncorrected.
And you can't be too fat.
2007-01-23 12:43:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yeah, then you can drop bombs on people and blow things up.
Can't you find a job that doesn't cause so much death?
2007-01-23 12:50:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋