Originally Posted by
shane123
I hate to get this off topic, but I would not know where else to find this information........
FLY6584 said only two T38s were given out to his class.......Anybody out there know what the T-38 drops will be looking like for the near future up to say 2 years from now? Are T-38 slots going to be increasing or decreasing?
And UAVs.....I know they are increasing, and I can only imagine them increasing more, but if someone has some numbers or educated speculation than fire away.
Or is there simply no way to tell whats coming down the pipe?
It is really hard to say whats going to happen, but for the time being I don't foresee 38 slots increasing anytime in the near future unless they start rolling out a ton of F35's and need pilots to fill the cockpits. Just my opinion though.
As far as UAVs go let's just say that over the next year or two the Air Force needs about 1100 new UAV pilots and considering the Air Force trains about 1500 pilots a year that's a pretty scary situation. I definitely think they will start a separate pipeline, but Gates wants UAV's right now and unfortunately that's what the Air Force has to give him so I would definitely expect FY09 classes to receive UAV's and I have also heard that C-17 copilots will be a huge target for them also.