i want to be a pilot and it can add up to become alot of $$$ so if i join the airforce does anyone know if it will be cheaper or if the train you to be a pilot at a lower cost??
2007-02-12 11:43:10 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Aircraft
In the US Air Force, only commissioned officers are allowed to be pilots. In order to become a commissioned officer. you must have at least a Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university. Unless your high-school grades are absolutely the top of your class, and you have enough political pull to get into the Air Force Academy, that means you will have to pay for a four-year college degree before you would be considered for pilot training. Even if you manage to jump through all the hoops and qualify for the position, only a very small percentage of applicants are accepted into Air Force flight training. An even smaller percentage actually make it through the training and end up flying US Air Force aircraft.
In short... Joining the Air Force is NOT the best way to become a pilot. It would be quicker and much less expensive to sign up for a training package at your local airport and just take it one step at a time.
2007-02-12 12:25:33 · answer #1 · answered by JetDoc 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you qualify for pilot training you will be paid to learn. Nothing is free however. You will spend the next four years as a member of the USAF. Not such a bad investment in your time and energy given the long term benefits. You might even decide to make the force a career choice.
2007-02-12 11:56:02 · answer #2 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you become a pilot in the air force, they will pay for your training, in fact they will pay YOU for your training, only problem is that you would owe a minimum of four years to them, and this is of course if they let you become a pilot.
2007-02-12 11:51:29 · answer #3 · answered by heavy_cow 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your undesirable eyesight will disqualify you from the aviator software for the Air rigidity. Your ethnic history would not consequence something. that's all approximately try rankings and actual skills. To replace right into a pilot you will desire to have a 20/20 imaginative and prescient, yet i think of the army do settle for helicopter pilots that have a correctable 20/20 imaginative and prescient.
2016-11-03 07:07:14 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Air Force academy is a great option- you will have to make the commitment to fly for x number of years- (I think it is four like everyone else said)- most commercial pilots nowadays are Air Force alumni- not all- but most! The Air Force academy is in Colorado Springs if you want to google it
2007-02-12 13:05:04 · answer #5 · answered by banana 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you are a pilot in The Air Force, There is NO comercial airline that will deny you and give the job to someone who wasn't in the Air Force.
We get paid to learn to fly.
:-)
2007-02-14 15:02:43 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I thought it was 7 years for USAF.
2007-02-13 03:12:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
yaes but you have to meet certain requirements.
check out afrotc.com it lists the requirements
2007-02-13 08:03:59 · answer #8 · answered by firefightingman 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋