What are you talking about? We were talking about a very low time showing PIC in an airplane by doing the Part 61 thing going through an interview pertending they were a PIC. BTW: I don't think you have flown with me, but I spend most of my time as PM.
ditto that, but the chances are the F15 fighter jock will have a much higher probability of successful completion of training. The F-15 guy has some real PIC time. Plus he is in a constant training cycle. He has been screend well beyond the average civilian pilot and faced a far more stringent a elimination program. BTW the USAF flight time forms may be a bit more accurate than other ways of logging flight time.
Along the same lines. I got a resume a few year back from a USAF EC-135 pilots, he had 1200 hours total time, he had been in 10 years. I hear F/A-18 pilots are getting about 12 hours a month when not deployed.
Things change I came out of my first squadron tour in 1971 with over 2000 hours, 700 of that came in six months flying around Vietnam. But then over the next 6 years I only got another 700 hours. I would imanine that those flying in support of Iraq or Afghanistan also see those kinds of numbers.
As Pervis said unless you been on both sides it is hard to compare. Building time on cross country's is a thing of the past, every flight has a training objective. 700 hours of monitoring the auto-pilot is much different than a 1.5 hour night flight on goggles into a unlit LZ to pick up a bunch of ninja turtles in 30 seconds. You might spend 5 hours planning this mission, then fly it in the simulator before doing it real time. But then again the military may have no idea how to enter the pattern at an uncontrolled airport, two different worlds.
