Originally Posted by
Regularguy
All you military jet jocks know, the US Government takes a person with zero time and in less than 200 hours they are flying airplanes loaded with weapons and often with WMDs.
Not quite....folks get around 80-90 hours in the T-6 and another 110’ish in the T-38 (not sure of T-1 track) so they are graduating with >200hrs. Then then throw in IFF and another 8 months of FTU and then MQT at their first Ops Squadron, and they are well above 200 hours before they are actually qualified to put war-craniums on fore-craniums.