Helicopter Pilot Training Experiment Skips Fixed-Wing Courses
Aug. 4, 2020 | By John A. Tirpak
In an effort to improve helicopter pilot training and alleviate the Air Force’s overall pilot shortage, Air Education and Training Command is about to experiment with a back-to-the-future plan that would send pilots to a helicopters-only flight school, resurrecting a format discontinued in the 1990s.
A “small group experiment†starts later this week at the Army’s Fort Rucker, Ala., training base, and contracts are expected to be awarded within the next two weeks for contractor-run helicopter training to begin next month, 19th Air Force Commander Maj. Gen. Craig D. Wills told Air Force Magazine.
https://www.airforcemag.com/helicopter-pilot-training-experiment-skips-fixed-wing-courses/
