Charlie, congrats! While trying to not repeat what has already been said, I can speak from my own experience as a flight commander for pilot training at Laughlin AFB last year.

I can’t emphasize enough, communicating with your flight leadership during training is essential. Don’t play “I have a secret”. Two of my students, in separate…

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Best advice I can provide you or anyone with past flying experience is to not think it will be easy. There have been plenty of private pilots and even prior regional pilots that transition over to military flying that find the training difficult and still struggle at times. The pacing, studying and style of flying will be very different and…

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