The Air Force Wants to Overhaul Pilot Training. But It Has to Win Over the Skeptics First
5 Sep 2020
Military.com | By Oriana Pawlyk
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is one of the most advanced stealth fighter jets in the world, boasting digital avionics and cutting-edge technologies that give pilots more situational awareness above the battlespace.
But the student pilots who will someday fly these premier planes are being trained on decades-old instruments and techniques -- and that has to change, according to top officials at Air Education and Training Command.
"Our training system hasn't fundamentally changed, probably in six decades, when we talk about pilot training," Maj. Gen. Craig Wills, 19th Air Force commander, told Military.com in an interview last week. "Certainly, we don't want to throw out the things that work, but the question is, in the 21st century, is it right that our primary training techniques still revolve around putting a poster on a wall and pretending we're flying an airplane?"
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/09/05/air-force-wants-overhaul-pilot-training-it-has-win-over-skeptics-first.html
