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From: al@infoswx.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Civilian aviation experience > mili
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Date: Tue, 21-Jan-86 23:25:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 21 23:25:00 1986
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Being an ex-Army officer "slated" to go to helicopter school, I think I
can answer that from the Army's point of view.  First a side note, I left 
the Army before going to flight school, because after several years on
active duty during the Carter administration, I felt the job security,
poor pay, and bad career opportunities for aviators, flying helicopters
was not worth the 5 year obligation of flight school.

Since that time, the Army has decided that aviators are very important.  As
a result, the Army prefers pilots over non-pilots for flight school.  They
have found pilots are less costly to train, and therefore get preferential
treatment in getting into flight school.

In addition, after being stationed at Fort Rucker, the Army aviation center,
and personnally knowing many of the instructors, they truely believed this.  

The only negative comment I heard was "That #$%!@# fixed wing pilot tried
to land the helicopter at 70 knots" :-)