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Simple. Become a blackhawk, chinook or Kiowa pilot. Get two or three years in the regular army as an aviator. Then contact one of their in house recruiters for info on the selection process. They are in great need of pilots. Something like 40-50% of their current aviators are eligible for retirement.

I'm sure there are a few former apache guys flying for the 160th but from everything that I've heard they seem to prefer the pilots from the other airframes. Probably because those pilots will already have more NVG experience. We use goggles plenty but our primary is FLIR.

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Apply.

 

They come here to Rucker once a quarter to brief. I got a packet in my email box, and I should have it done here pretty soon.

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Who?

 

Chinooks. He wants to get a job flying Chinook. Easily the hardest thing to do around here since they drop one per quarter :lol:

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Chinooks. He wants to get a job flying Chinook. Easily the hardest thing to do around here since they drop one per quarter :lol:

 

Are you referring to -47s with 160th?

 

Two years ago or so, they were hurting for 47 pilots. A friend of mine went that way and got the transition from -60s

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Are you referring to -47s with 160th?

 

Two years ago or so, they were hurting for 47 pilots. A friend of mine went that way and got the transition from -60s

 

I was actually just being a smartass since no one gets a Chinook out of here nowadays, and Dutch and Buzz were all "first rule about Nightstalkers....." :ph34r:

 

And yea, last brief I went to said they were less than 60% manned on 47s.

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I wouldn't think 47 pilots would be hard to find. That's the size of most graduating classes.

 

oh geez....we're just racking them up now, aren't we? (After the "Don't be a buzzkill" post)

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The 160th takes plenty of Apache pilots. Obviously they'll transition you to another aircraft, but unless you have 1000-1500 hours minimum in your current airframe they're going to transition you to whatever airframe they need pilots for anyway.

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so would a pilot have to go through something like Green Platoon or would it be different for a pilot?

 

Still go through green platoon, and then some. Lots of time in a little bird navigating, getting your time on target.

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