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Subject: Re: Civilian aviation experience > military
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Date: Thu, 16-Jan-86 19:00:13 EST
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> ...it got me to thinking. Is the military interested in getting young
> people with previous civilian aviation experience or pilot licenses as
> input to their own military pilot-training programs? Or would they
> prefer to get people with skill and ability, but NO experience, so they
> can teach them to do it "their way", without any "unlearning" of
> previous civilian practices?
> 

The military would generally prefer that you not have ANY flight experience
because so many civilian instructors don't know how to teach worth a damn.

I personally think it would be very helpful from a self-confidence point
of view for a person to have at least soloed under the direction of a
competant CFI.  Many who enter flight training programs have doubts
about their own abilities and it would take a big load off if they knew
how relatively simple it is to learn to fly.  The hard part comes later!

Ted Spitzmiller
CFI A&I SMEL