Originally Posted by
2StgTurbine
Think the the selection process and failure rate in training too. Unlike the military, a flight school will accept any student who can get a loan and as long as they have enough money, they will eventually pass. The military screens applicants to get the best and then sets high training standards. If they can't meet those standards, they are dropped. By the end of it, you are left with a select group of pilots whose abilities are far ahead of their flight time.
That's only a small part of it. Student pilots simply can't do all their training in multimillion dollar turbine aircraft at a price point of millions of dollars per head. The notion that we can lower mins to match military training hours and get the same thing is completely absurd. The civilian training programs need experience, which is what the RAA/A4A are so desperate to try and lower.