Originally Posted by
crewdawg52
I'll put any new military pilot up against one from a pilot mill. No comparison. "Johnny Jet Pilot" from a mill didn't walk through the gates at UPT with 13 hrs in a C-150 and within 4 months, be soloing in wingtip formation.
Those 300 hr AF (or any military pilot) pilots got those hrs in a much shorter time frame, and much more intense flying, than the 500 f/o did.
True. But check this out. I am in Civil Air Patrol. We had a cadet who was very serious about flying. He got his ratings all the way up to CFI. While still a cadet. He went to fly for the airlines at age 22. Then after two or three years he went into the military to fly.