Originally Posted by
USMCFLYR
The T-39D/G/N SabreLiners and T-47A Citations had been flown by contract pilots out of NAS Pensacola for as long as I can remember. As you said - it is known to be one of the best jobs out there and an extremely hard group to break into for those outside of the 'club'. I assume that those same civilian contract pilots have been flying the T-1As since 2004?
USMCFLYR
I'm sure it was contract pilots well before 2004 -- but my memory is hazy. I went to the great escape up in Milton back in '98 while at the same time I had some frieds down at the nav school. I recall that the T-1 NAV trainers lost their active duty pilots sometime around the same time I was in VT-3. I could be wrong but that's what I seem to remember.
Are the T-34s completely phased out of Whiting Field? I was in Northwest FL for all of August and I didn't see one flying. Just curious..