The air forces of the leading countries of the world reduce the number of flight hours, we go to their level ...
The reduction in the defense budget of the United States forced to almost halve the number of flight hours, many pilots fly only 120 hours per year (an hour costs an average of 20 thousand dollars), reports aereo.jor.br 9 in January.
In 2013, France also reduced the number of flight hours from 180 to 150 (a reduction of 17%). In the case of a military operation, pilots with less flying time will receive intensive training for 60-90 days (100 hours).
In 1990, Russia also introduced a two-tier system for training pilots with a large use of simulators (employment on it is 10% of the cost of an hour flight in a fighter).
The most experienced pilots are Israel, the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada, where the number of raids per pilot reaches 200 hours. The Taiwan Air Force maintains an average of 180 hours due to an increase in the level of training of Chinese military pilots. Some elite Chinese fighter squadrons already have 180 flying hours per year. The level of South Korea is 120 hours per year, which is much more than that of its rival, the North Korean Air Force.
Before 1942, the most experienced pilots were German pilots who had an annual 240 hours flight (British - 200 hours). After 1942, due to fuel shortages, the flight time was significantly reduced, which led to the beginning of the loss of air dominance. At the same time, the annual flight time of the British pilots was increased to 335 hours, the Americans, on average, flew 320 hours. In 1944, the German pilots raid fell to 110 hours. That accelerated the defeat of the Luftwaffe
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Good news under these conditions is that our air force is increasing flight training. And already on the fly close to the level of world powers.
From Wiki: According to official figures from the Russian Ministry of Defense, the average raid per combat pilot aviation The Russian Air Force has grown since 2008 from 70-80 hours to 110-in 2011, 130 hours are planned in 2012.
The average flight time of a young pilot in 2013 was 112 hours.
"It is important that about 2013 cool specialists were trained in 1500, including more than 10 officers received a pilot sniper qualification, and more than 1 officers received a pilot-class 320 pilot," the press service noted.
The result of this work was the successful participation of the Air Force flight crews in the large-scale joint Russian-Belarusian strategic exercise “Zapad-2013”, the tasks within the framework of the “Interaction-2013”, “Vigilant Sky-2013”, “Vigilant Eagle-2013”, “Fighting Commonwealth-2013. In August, 2013 was a joint Russian-French tactical flight training of the Air Force.
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Air Force in the exercises of the armed forces of Russia and Belarus "West-2013"
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