Originally Posted by
Sailvi767
The issue is still not recruiting. It’s the constraints of how many pilots the pipeline can produce. They are having zero issues putting pilots into the pipeline. The pipeline needs to be bigger.
Yep...no dispute there. And they're trying to do that:
“Last September, Air Education and Training Command head Lt. Gen. Darryl Roberson said that the Air Force hoped to increase the pilot training pipeline to 1,400 within a few years. But, he warned,
even maxing out pilot production capacity at 1,400 wouldn’t be enough, and the Air Force needed to train 1,600 new pilots annually.”
https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/y...vere-shortage/