Originally Posted by
MikeF16
Pretty sure it is their intent to lower the hours requirement for fighter pilots but as long as you feel like you can justify your answer in an interview have a nut. If I flew heavies I wouldn't consider my aircraft high performance just to make it under the wire of a reduced hours requirement. Makes me wonder if they'd consider the pathetically underpowered T-37 and T-38 "high performance"
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I am over 3,000 either way, so it doesn't matter to me. I would agree, that sounds like the intent of the 1,200 question. Single seat guys tend to get less hours due to shorter legs. I don't know that a 1,200 fighter guy equals a 3,000 heavy guy in experience level (2.5 to 3 flying tours) though, but I am not the one doing the hiring.
I agree, though, where do you draw the line? T-37? T-38? T-34 (550HP, but waaaaaay underpowered), T-6?
There are a lot of UPT and Navy VT guys that have over 1,200 in model and less than 3,000 total.