Originally Posted by HazyIPA

T-1 maintenance is killing T-1 flying. Even with the little mods the Air Force did to them, those jets were just not designed for the use and abuse of a training environment. Air Force is now moving to a training model in which students earn their wings in the T-6. Fighter/bomber folks go to the T-38 (eventually the T-7) because the fighter community does not yet have the risk tolerance for putting people in MWS fighters without some sort of transition. AETC is arguing that the airlines train people for multi-crew, multi-engine airplanes entirely in sims, so they should be able to do the same. (Ignoring the fact those people already have 750+ hours of experience already). So pilots slated for airlift/tanker complete a T-1 simulator-only syllabus and then head straight to the B-course for their big gray airplane.

It's as ridiculous as it sounds.