Q's pertaining to: becoming a navy pilot

[Goose]

prepare yourself for stupid questions

I've been reading into becoming a navy pilot and I think it goes something like this.

Bachelors Degree (any particular field required?)
OCS (6 weeks correct?)
Primary Flight Training (how long is that course?)
Intermediate Flight Training ( '' ? )
Advanced Flight Training ( '' ? )

then banana-fanana-foe, you get your wings.

I'm just checking to see if I missed something, or overlooked something on the website.

dont make fun of me, I'm just a junior-high student trying to get a project done. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

thanks

[H46Bubba]

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Bachelors Degree (any particular field required?)


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Just needs to be a Bachelors. If you want, it can be underwater basket weaving!

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OCS (6 weeks correct?)


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12 weeks.

Before you begin primary flight training you have to attend API (Aviation Preflight Indoctorination). Primary, Secondary and Advanced flight traing all depends on what pipeline and platform you choose or get chosen to fly.

[deskjockey]

You're pretty much right on. Only need a 4 year degree. Remember you can get a commission through the Naval Academy, ROTC, and there are a few other programs for prior enlisted as well.

First comes 6 weeks API in Pensacola, FL. Then Primary at either Whiting Field in Milton, FL or NAS Corpus Christi, TX. Primary is where you solo, do aerobatics, formation, basic insturment flying and visual navigation. After about 100 hours in the T-34 and about 7-9 months you select a pipeline (jets, helos, props). From there you do Intermediate (T-34 for helos and props, jet for jet guys), and on to advanced (TH-57 for helo, T-44 for prop, T-45 for jet), there's also a track for the E-6 (B707) which I'm not too familiar with. Intermediate is a short phase (couple months). Advanced is tailored more specifically to what platform you'll be flying in the fleet and is about another 9 months (over a year for jets). After advanced you get your wings.

Sounds simple and there are a few combinations of places to train and aircraft which eventually lead to your wings.

[SteveC]

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I recall someone telling me that a "navy pilot" steers a ship, a "naval aviator" flies planes. They began using "aviator" when planes came into use because there already were "pilots" on board the ships. I don't know if that was just the history of the navy's usage of the word "aviator" instead of "pilot", or if that is still current usage.
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Continue.

[woodreau]

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I recall someone telling me that a "navy pilot" steers a ship, a "naval aviator" flies planes. They began using "aviator" when planes came into use because there already were "pilots" on board the ships. I don't know if that was just the history of the navy's usage of the word "aviator" instead of "pilot", or if that is still current usage.
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There are no Navy pilots, they're all civilian harbor pilots that bring in everything from the aircraft carriers to the frigate. The pilots all get six figure salaries and it's a tightly run Mafia. Someone has to die before you can get into that profession. But if the ship runs aground, the Captain gets fried not the pilot.

In foreign ports, we just kind of ignore the foreign harbor pilots. Except when we were going into Bahrain single-engine. The other shaft was locked. Bahrain's ship channel is only a 200ft wide (our ship is 100ft wide), with two 90 degree turns in the channel. Man that pilot was good. He took our 41,000 ton helicopter carrier in and didn't stop to take names. Kept us going 10kts all the way to the pier. (Vmc for a helicopter carrier is about 5kts.)
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You can get into Naval Aviation in more than one way. OCS is not the only way as someone else mentioned.

[JimmyK]

Air Warriors Best site on the net for information about Naval Aviation. If you have a question someone will answer it, they have everything from retired F-4 pilots to kids like you and me.

[SJFLYER]

The navy still has pilots on tug boats. All the tug boats in Yokosuka are piloted by navy chiefs.