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We have current and former combat pilots here on the forum. What say you? How fast can an experienced MIG or Sukhoi pilot reach effectiveness on a F-16?The Air Force evaluation of the two Ukrainian pilots tested stateside back in January found them mastering the F-16 in weeks, not months.
We have current and former combat pilots here on the forum. What say you? How fast can an experienced MIG or Sukhoi pilot reach effectiveness on a F-16?
There's also the need to recruit and train rookie fighter pilots to replace those lost and to cover the expanding fleet. So, we'll see Ukrainian pilots going straight from trainers to Vipers and/or Gripens.
As an example, it took the reserve 301st TFW at my base about eight months to transition from F-4Es to F-16As in 1990-91, and that was with a common language and units of measure, albeit with a vastly different and improved airframe. So there's no one easy answer to this question.
Is this munition a copy of a Chinese copy of a Nato munition?Russia ramps up Krasnopol-M2 sniper shell production by 25 times to ta
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The Tu-141 is pretty cool.Ukrainian weaponized Tu-141 tactical drone resumes attacks on Russian
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I don't believe soIs this munition a copy of a Chinese copy of a Nato munition?
That was also with the luxury of time.I'm not a pilot, but I was at Carswell when the 301st TFW transitioned from F-4Es to F-16As. For give my quoting myself, but as I wrote much earlier in the thread:
Or is it going from 1 a month to 25 a month?Is this munition a copy of a Chinese copy of a Nato munition?
That was also with the luxury of time.
But what of the rookie Ukrainian pilots without experience on MiG-29s or Su-27s? There needs to be a training pipeline of rookie Ukrainian fighter pilots. A war zone is no place for an introductory fighter pilot school, so Ukraine may want to send prospective pilots to other countries. How long does it take to convert a civilian youth into a fighter pilot?That was also with the luxury of time.
I think the USAF's assessment was 6 months from memory. They had a couple of Ukranian pilots for evaluation a while back.
But what of the rookie Ukrainian pilots without experience on MiG-29s or Su-27s? There needs to be a training pipeline of rookie Ukrainian fighter pilots. A war zone is no place for an introductory fighter pilot school, so Ukraine may want to send prospective pilots to other countries. How long does it take to convert a civilian youth into a fighter pilot?
But what of the rookie Ukrainian pilots without experience on MiG-29s or Su-27s? There needs to be a training pipeline of rookie Ukrainian fighter pilots. A war zone is no place for an introductory fighter pilot school, so Ukraine may want to send prospective pilots to other countries. How long does it take to convert a civilian youth into a fighter pilot?
When a F15 or F16 guy switches aircraft or comes back from a staff tour they go through whats called a "short course". Usually it's about 2.5 to 3 months long, and the guy graduates as a basic pilot in the jet but is not Mission Ready (MR). He then goes to his specific unit and gets top off training (mirroring what he just did in the school house) plus unit specific mission training. Specific training covers night attack, CAS, SEAD, etc., plus familiarity with the units tasked AOR. For instance while flying Eagles in Florida my AOR was Europe, and I knew all the departures, recoveries, safe routes, general lay down, local bases for my specific area (inside Europe).We have current and former combat pilots here on the forum. What say you? How fast can an experienced MIG or Sukhoi pilot reach effectiveness on a F-16?
There's also the need to recruit and train rookie fighter pilots to replace those lost and to cover the expanding fleet. So, we'll see Ukrainian pilots going straight from trainers to Vipers and/or Gripens.
BuffNut answered most of this but I will piggyback on his reply.But what of the rookie Ukrainian pilots without experience on MiG-29s or Su-27s? There needs to be a training pipeline of rookie Ukrainian fighter pilots. A war zone is no place for an introductory fighter pilot school, so Ukraine may want to send prospective pilots to other countries. How long does it take to convert a civilian youth into a fighter pilot?