Originally Posted by
Joachim
That was my point, to come up with a system that draws on the experience pool in the airlines. Do you really need to send an Allegiant capt. through upt or could you simply do a 6mo transition course and put him in the reserves?
We already have that for the type of flying for which airline experience is directly relevant, it's called CRAF. Except you don't join the reserves, you just do it while working for your airline employer. The military typically contracts out most "airline style" flying missions.
Tactical flying, as GF described, is quite a bit more involved. Point A-to-B airline flying is probably only about 5% of what a fighter pilot needs to concern himself with (especially since all fighter pilots today are actually multi-mission fighter/attack pilots). Mobility pilots have a closer correlation to airline flying but it's still a big delta.