How much flight time do fighter pilots get?
Short answer: In pure hours, a fighter pilot will probably get somewhere between 1/3 to 1/4 of the total hours that some heavy airframe pilots get. Depending on many factors, fighter pilots may average 200-300 hours a year. Long answer: However, that is for a few reasons: for example, heavy pilots routinely fly long-duration flights (often more than 8-10 hours), while fighter pilots generally fly sorties of only one or two hours. In addition, heavy pilots often log time when theyre not even on the flight deckand sometimes even when theyre asleep. So the “quality” of the flight time they log is often lower. That is, a fighter pilot with 1,000 hours has as much “experience” as–or more than–than some heavy pilots with 4 or even 5,000 hours. Remember too that most heavy pilots due three thingstakeoff, cruise, and land (thats not true for some tactical aircraft like C-130s). Fighter pilots actively fly, and execute missions, on each sortie–and they do it by themselves. When “converting”
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