Originally Posted by
ugleeual
I used to run the A3 training office in the Pentagon… if he wants to fly fighters he’ll need to go through an entire UPT course (T38s) and IFF… no short cuts jumping straight to T38s. Maybe some (50%?) flexibility flying a heavy or rotor in USAFR or ANG if the Generals are pushing it… age is going to be the real issue.
I think you are missing my point. The USAF bureaucracy will see him as a qualified fixed wing rated pilot with a background in King Airs (or whatever he flew). That bureaucracy will see sending a rated pilot through UPT as a waste of resources when there are many MWSs he can already go into. I agree that there is no shortcut to T38s, but the same bureaucracy that will tell him he has to attend UPT to fly fighters will tell him that qualified military fixed wing pilots can’t go to UPT because they are already rated pilots. For his sake I hope I’m wrong, but I doubt it.