Originally Posted by
vessbot
I would guess yes. I've heard they teach pilots how to fly in the military. In my vaunted 121 initial, I think I was only ever required to fly 2 "hand flown" approaches. (And that's with the autopilot on until on course configured, and GS intercept, and then with FD on.) And after that strongly discouraged from hand flying at every step along the way. But somehow I'm supposed to feel confident and capable of doing it. The whole thing is very bizarre.
Military pilots are required to be interviewed, hired, and advanced under the government contractor program.
https://www.dol.gov/vets/vets4212.htm
The airlines get hundreds of millions from the government for misc services, including being a standby military transport operation.
Otherwise, ALPA would require Delta to only hire from other ALPA carriers, which they were able to achieve a certain percentage of in the Delta PWA.