Training time to fly a transport plane

[Jay_solo]

Quick question, on average, how many flight hours does it take for a new Airforce recruit to be able to fly right seat on military transport aircraft, like a Hercules or C17 Globemaster? I’m just trying to compare it to civilian flying requirements.

[Ken Scott]

If he went direct to multi engine training from EFT he'd arrive on the OCU with about 150 hours.

C130J course is 33 sims (approx 90 hours) & 4 flights (about 8 hours in the seat) followed by 12 sectors of line training in the aircraft (difficult to put a number on that but say 40 hours).

Grand total of about 200 hours in the aircraft.

[RookiePilot]

Good answer there for the hours. With reference to months and years, I have a rough estimate but I could well be outdated in my knowledge of the training pipeline... To get qualified on a Herc or C-17, for example...
IOT - 8 months
EFT - 8 months
45 Sqn - 8 months
OCU - 2 months (???)

Now factor in the hold times, which nowadays are very long... it could be anywhere up to 3 years...

[VinRouge]

Or,

How quickly can PMA get the sausage machine back on once the whole air force PVRs for the airlines? (circa 18-24 months' time).

:ooh: