pilotyip
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We prefer to hire military pilots whenever we can, about 35% of our pilots are military trained pilots. Military pilots may not be the best pilots in the world, but I will tell you one thing. They are a known quantity, and they do not present training problems. The have been pre-screened, they have been through a demanding training program, and they have been training from day one to be an aircraft commander. Every flight they fly is a training flight.
They are easy to train because they do as they are told, they study, and they succeed. This is not to say civilian background pilots do not do the same. But the military pilots are a consistent product, where as the civilian pilots present a much broader range of capabilities. We have hired 124 military pilots with one failure over the last 8 years; we have hired 175 civilian, with 37 failures over the same time.
We prefer to hire military pilots whenever we can, about 35% of our pilots are military trained pilots. Military pilots may not be the best pilots in the world, but I will tell you one thing. They are a known quantity, and they do not present training problems. The have been pre-screened, they have been through a demanding training program, and they have been training from day one to be an aircraft commander. Every flight they fly is a training flight.
They are easy to train because they do as they are told, they study, and they succeed. This is not to say civilian background pilots do not do the same. But the military pilots are a consistent product, where as the civilian pilots present a much broader range of capabilities. We have hired 124 military pilots with one failure over the last 8 years; we have hired 175 civilian, with 37 failures over the same time.
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