[quote=FlyArmy;432827]I'm no fighter pilot but I'll answer the questions as best I can. 1. You don't get multi time in a hornet. Centerline thrust I believe?


It is multi-time, but it could be considered centerline thrust. Depends on the airplane. I know a guy who got centerline-only removed from his license from the F-4 because he showed the FAA an emergency in the flight manual that had a minimum-controllable single-ingine speed.

So it doesn't make a difference whether you have one or two rockets under your ass.

It does matter if you go to a job that needs multi-time. Your license would just have a centerline-restriction until you passed a checkride in a non-centerline multi.

2. Some airlines count every hour in a fighter as 2 or 3 hours since fighter pilots typically fly less than heavy pilots.

NWA had the highest multiplication factor I knew of: double. However, the reason is that fighter-flying is generally much more hands-on-throttles-and-stick, whereas heavy flying tends to be more autopilot. They tended to count "number of sorties" as more of a factor than "number of hours." Fighter flying tends to be much more mentally intense as well.

If you went by equivalent hours, a typical fighter pilot gets 200-220 hours a year. I think USAF heavy drivers get 800-900, so you would have to multiply by 4 or 5...again, highest I knew of was two.

Museic:

If you want to fly fighters, there are more cockpits in the USAF than the Navy or Marines, but not by much. However, the chances of getting a helicopter in the Navy/USMC are about 10 times higher than the USAF. About 50-60% of all Navy/USMC pilots are helo drivers.

That being said, only about 30% of all UPT students end up in a fighter. 3-5% of all USAF pilots are helo.