For the first time in more than a quarter century, Air Force pilots have earned their wings from a helicopter-only training course. “Today, you’ve established a new helicopter-only training,” Lt. Gen. Marshall B. "Brad" Webb, commander of AETC, told the new pilots at their graduation ...
The Air Force is trying an experiment that would take its rotary-wing pilots out of the standard Undergraduate Pilot Training program and send them through an all-helicopter course. The goal is to trim months from training, improve pilot quality and free up fixed-wing slots in ...