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The CT-155 Hawk has been used to train Canadian pilots for front-line fighter aircraft for the past 24 years. Credit: Royal Canadian Air Force.
The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) has introduced a period of hiatus, according to an update from 4 March 2024, while the service decides on its next trainer aircraft as the existing 18 CT-155 Hawk units come to the end of their 24-year-long life.
While RCAF officials debate the platform that will best simulate Canada’s newly acquired F-35 Lightning II fighter aircraft, the fast jet leading the nation’s combat air fleet, the Nato military alliance will host their pilots in various training schemes in numerous locations dotted around the Euro-Atlantic.
This interim or ‘bridge’ training programme will occur under the Joint Jet Pilot Training (ENJJPT) programme at Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas, and other Fighter Lead-in Training (FLIT) programmes in Finland and at Italy’s International Flight Training School, where Canada will have two instructors and six students by 2025.
Hawk aircraft training operations ceased at 15 Wing Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, in the summer of 2023. Now, Canada will begin to send up to seven pilot students to ENJJPT each year.
What trainer will pilots be taught on while RCAF is in limbo?
Canadian students arriving in Texas will be trained via the Undergraduate Pilot Training programme on the US Air Force (USAF) T-38C Talon, an aircraft dating from the early 1960s that “continues to prove itself a capable fighter trainer.”
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The age difference between the 24-year-old Hawk and the Talon, which is more than 60 years old, appears to be lost on the service. Although, the USAF upgraded its Talon fleet to the T-38C variant 16 years ago, which includes updated avionics and support systems.
첫댓글 헐 T-38C는 더 낡았는데...
미군 T-38도 타국 공군 파일럿 교육에 돌릴 정도로 비행시간이 나올 지 모르겠는데요 ㄷㄷㄷ
2년 전인가, 미국서 있게 마련(...)인 T-38 추락(착륙 어프로치중)으로 교관과 학생조종사 모두 죽었는데, 학생조종사는 유학온 항공자위대 간부였습니다. (먼 산) 항공자위대선 초등훈련 마치고 일부는 미국으로 유학을 보내더군요. 양성 캐파가 없어서 그러는 건 아닐 테고, 미국통을 만들기 위해서 그랬으려나 봅니다.
영관급 장교들의 해외유학은 어느 정도 군사외교의 성격을 띄고 있을 테니..
T-7은 언제면 탈론을 대체할 수 있을 지 ㅜㅜ
@위종민 고급장교가 아닌 위관급 장교입니다. 그러니까 일본 자국내에서 고등훈련 해서 윙 다는 대신에, 미국으로 유학보내는 겁니다. 당시 사건 기사를 찾았는데,
https://flyteam.jp/news/article/131179
2등공위니까 중위겠네요. 영문 기사에선 Capt.로 나왔지만 일본어 기사가 맞겠죠.
https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2021/10/10/pilots-errors-upon-descent-led-to-fatal-t-38-crash-in-february-air-force-says/
그런데 (미국인)교관은 24살 중위(교관도 부족하냐!!)였고 학생조종사는 영어가 서툴렀다는 총제적 난국이었습니다.