Officer entry and Army Air Corps (AAC)
Right, so i've been to my local armed forces career office (AFCO) a couple times to speak to the Navy & RAF about joining as pilot aircrew.
Had finished my business with them so thought I'd check what the AAC had to offer.
They said that unlike the other two services where you can only be offficer pilots the AAC prefer you to enter with no commission and work your way up to promo for corporal before they consider you for the AAC pilot course.
Spoke to some AAC NCO's a couple of days later at Bournemouth airshow and they said this is because an officer will only have about 5 yeard behind the controls before he's prooted behind a desk whereas a NCO can expect up to 20 yrs flying.
Is this correct?
Does this mean that you can still apply as commisioned officer but the AAC just prefer the NCO route? Or you can only got the NCO route?
Help please?
Ollie