How to Become an Air Force or Navy Pilot | Fighter Pilot Gives Insider Tips

[@MaxAfterburnerusa]

Hello everyone! Thanks for checking out this video! Best of luck on the journey of becoming a pilot. You got this. Please dominate that like button like you will pilot training 💪

[@loreen7336]

Hi Max, I really wanna be an military pilot but the only problem is that I have a scoliosis… do you know if it’s possible to be an military pilot with scoliosis or not? Please answer my comment! PS: Very Cool and Helpful Video!

[@wendelljohnson1052]

My son is in AF. Learned to fly in civil air patrol and held several leadership roles in ROTC. Earned a slot for pilot training. Took his AF physical just before college graduation and did not pass color blind test. Vision was good, just did not pass a few of the color slides. That ended the pilot path. No waiver was granted. He moved into maintainer, air advisor, and now instructor. I recommend getting a color blind test early if you want to be a pilot.

[@hftryuhg2]

i might be in the same boat. Did they take him into further testing after he failed the first test

[@jancesaraverilla1977]

this further motivates me to pursue it as my lifelong career, I've always been a fan of aviation. After my BS nursing degree (2nd year now) I'm gonna transfer to my relatives at the state and start this journey I've always wanted.

[@carlertle4586]

dude no way! I graduated with my BSN and have been working as an OR nurse for two years now, I'm working on my private pilots license right now and will hopefully start to look at different Air National Guard opportunities once thats done. Have dreamt of flying fighters since I was 6 or 7, no better time then now.

[@markburkley42]

I would add 4: believe in your self. That said, it also means honestly evaluating your abilities, to learn where you need to work harder, and never let your "ego' exceed your abilities. From a guy whose callsign was "Mother" because I was told I worried about everyone but myself.

[@AlphaGatorDCS]

My son has been offered by the USAF Academy via football...this video is great to help him better understand the process. He has always loved military aviation (we fly DCS together a lot). He's weighing all his options, but the opportunity to go to Colorado Springs through football and possibly represent his country as an aviator is definitely at the top of the list. Thanks for this video!

[@Aditi27]

Military is the only profession where first one has to make it a career & eventually it becomes a way of life. Its hard work, alot of dedication & one unique approach for joining the military I personally feel is the determination at a very early stage in life. That is the best way to get prepared for it mentally & physically. Loved this video & looking forward to the series. ❤

[@argoswaits2084]

I'm going to contact the NJROTC instructor at my hs to see the possibilities for AFROTC or other programs to get a head start on the competition. Thanks for the video, this and Hasard Lee's videos have given me confidence and strengthened my decision to be an Air Force fighter pilot

[@joefrisbie485]

It was always my dream to be a fighter pilot then as a young adult I developed epilepsy in my 20s and I feel like it took every dream I had away.

[@C901-r8i]

This is my first time seeing your video and I love it already 2mins into it.

[@Duvstep910]

I live in Jamaica and I dream of being a pilot one day; whether commercial or military. Making note of this information.

[@sirnormie6931]

In a jamaican too, from florida but I'm in Jamaica rn. I'm trying to become a pilot fighter

[@rohenry9962]

@@sirnormie6931Another Jamaican here too. In the US and also aim to be a military pilot.

[@boneshaman8912]

My first choice was to join the AF. But I got discouraged by the AF recuter. So I joined the army and became a 19K M1 Abrams. But my son wants to join the AF and fly fighter's. His favorite are the F4U Corsair and the F14 Tomcat.

[@hugoglenn9741]

Both Navy aircraft

[@glocktown21]

Thanks Max, I LOVE your Enthusiasm and videos!! Thank you for your service and keep the videos rolling!!!!!!!!!!

[@cmdmd]

Film Production, I said your videos are more engaging last time I commented here… Now it makes PERFECT sense. :) D-20, D-40s are fantastic planes.

[@ralphmarkasher]

Ryan, I was an IP at FT Rucker and a flight commander that trained Army and Air Force students in the last stage of rotary wing training.

[@hugoglenn9741]

That’s okay I trained several fixed wing qual helicopter pilots at Vance

[@Chaoswolf5678]

I love the videos! I'm a retired Army man myself Artillery and then a medic. OIF 3 and 4. My son Raiden ( yes that's his name and he lives up to it) is 12 and wants to be a Navy fighter pilot! He wants the The F-18 Super hornet! He and I have watched another channel C.W Lemoine, call sign Mover and this was his beginning! Thankfully we live local to an airport that does have CAP Civil Air Patrol and he can't wait to get into it! Thank you for motivating my son to be something GREAT! I'll use this video to motivate my son to be and do great things! Thank you for this awesome channel and your service to our great country!!!! Regards, Michael Thornton U.S Army (retired)

[@Mmjk_12]

Here in the UK there were 11 slots for pilot roles this year, there are thousands of applicants so the competition is stiff! I'm in my local UAS (University Air Squadron), which I assume is the UK equivalent to ROTC and going to apply to the RAF in my final year of university.

[@conniehooks4647]

Love to watching u ryan❤❤

[@gonzalogaleano2866]

I love it i wishes my mom would had send me to a military school when i was misbehaving in H.C now I am telling my son the great opportunity that he has by joining the AF or Navy so he can also get his engineering degree he likes that.. thanks for this videos

[@dawnspartan1173]

My big goal is to fly CF-18s with the RCAF. I'm not sure about the differences between the Canadian and American processes but I'll make sure to use your golden rules. Thanks.

[@lukefritz4058]

This video did help a lot! I aspire to be a Army Aviation Officer through ROTC and fly. Even if I don't fly in the Army, I still have the chance to apply to a guard unit :D

[@fulcrum9644]

I hope this video includes how to quickly apply to airforce im canadian btw

[@MaxAfterburnerusa]

for sure! Lets rock

[@stumpayeremy]

This video really gives a lot to look forward too. I’m currently in ROTC, finishing up my third semester, with a mind set that I want to make those around me, and myself, not just fighter pilots, but the best fighter pilots. I want to be able to fly many different types of fighters, maybe even be a test pilot, but I would love to start with F-16 for my first couple of years. Which path would you recommend I take?

[@kennethblakeiii9596]

Hey Max, I found your video most informative! Much like most of your viewers I too wanted to be a fighter Pilot (and still want to). it's just that I reach the age threshold next year at 34. I wish I could have had this information sooner.

[@excellenceinanimation960]

I wanna be a crop duster but I’d kinda like to fly fighter jets to! I’m going to try to glider pilot license first to see how I like flying.

[@joevaccaro6655]

Thanks for another awesome 👏 video. And again, more credibility is given to Top Gun 👍🙂

[@IndyBobcat]

"Just...a little...push." *Maverick dives into denser air* 😂

[@phoenix3717]

Max, I’m heading to OTS next year with a pilot slot, really looking toward flying and hopefully get a fighter slot since they’re needed heavily right now.

[@hugoglenn9741]

You don’t get a fighter slot. You are selected for,that during pilot,training if you don’t wash out or selected for something else like helicopters or drones

[@krakenassassin7805]

How’d everything happen man I need all the information I can get

[@phoenix3717]

@@hugoglenn9741 correct. I’m hoping for to track t38s and get a fighter slot.

[@phoenix3717]

@@krakenassassin7805 still in UPT and haven’t flown yet due to backlog. I’ll reply back in the future once I get more answers though.

[@krakenassassin7805]

@@phoenix3717 thanks man. God bless you

[@thehiddencode5686]

To fly these or become a pilot on both NAVY and Air Force, you must become an officer first and be very competitive. You basically have to dedicate 8+ years of yourt life to fly these aircrafts. Age requirements to start doing this is 18-33.

[@gazzarafalemozzy4766]

cool we dont need to watch the stream now thx

[@MaxAfterburnerusa]

LOL

[@otterfishingjourneys1362]

Just add DCS to your résumé your good to go

[@brockmeyers7589]

Any tips on how to get into the Air Force academy?

[@hugoglenn9741]

Step 1, do you fill a quota then it’s easier. Step 2 do you fill 2 quotas then you are accepted unless you did drugs. Step 3 was your parent Medal of Honor then you are accepted if you have an SAT over 1000. step 4 Do you play Football then we will wash over your sub 1000 SAT at the prep school and we will cover up your drug use, I kid you not

[@fightingfalconfan]

I sense a future collab video with another USAF pilot by the name of MOVER...

[@randomuser5443]

I am accepted into embry riddle’s aviation program. Hopefully i can secure rotc or at worse ocs

[@rohenry9962]

At worse OCS? OCS is a great option, plus you get a guaranteed flight slot, so you go in already knowing you will be a pilot.

[@BlaiseTighe]

My depth of field isn't the greatest so I'm limited to dogfight simulators and videos like this. I love fighter jets and aviation but I don't have the time or perfect visibility to try unfortunately. Also I'm Canadian and we don't have much air support.

[@Sammy_1418]

The video i need :D

[@MaxAfterburnerusa]

Let's GOOOOOOO!

[@Sammy_1418]

@@MaxAfterburnerusa i hope i'll actually become a pilot in either the air force or the navy

[@OtonielOrellana-k5k]

I want to join the air force because I want to be a pilot, I want to fly cargo because I really like the c17 global master that’s the airplane I wanna fly someday. Do you have any tips for me

[@ShovelMonkey]

Thanks! You only put this video out 40 years too late! LOL. Nah, my path in life is on me. Maybe my son will want to walk this path.

[@ninjalp4618]

You said there is the test IFF, But in the F18C Hornet there is a system also called IFF wich means interrogated friend or foe. So my question is: Are these two different things with the same name? Or do you have a different name in modern Aircrafts? Would be interesting because I love to play DCS as a Flight sim.

[@user-dx4hb5le4v]

Would you go to IFF and fly the Diamond if you already have flight experience and licenses in a Cessna?

[@jonmurphy2564]

I'm a cadet in AFROTC at the moment. Can I still do the air national guard hack if I have a commitment to go active?

[@crazy-ou4ji]

Does civil air patrol work to?

[@dhancock12]

How do you find out what planes are at what bases?

[@hugoglenn9741]

If you are in it to get a certain bases you are sadly mistaken. The AF intentionally puts you where they want you and usually that’s far away from home, homeboy.

[@adenpoh1251]

Can an international student is the US join AF ROTC

[@cataclysm3733]

If I just graduated with a 3.0 gpa bachelors and am halfway to my private pilot what do you think the chances are for me?

[@TheKing-hr5uj]

Does any civilian time transfer over or help any at all I'm an instrument rated private pilot and have been thinking hard about enlisting to try and fly I don't have a degree tho

[@hugoglenn9741]

You’re out of luck 5 ways to Sunday. Officers are Air Force pilots not enlisted. Some of My worst students in UPT had civilian time, they could not keep up with AF aviation. No mater what time you have you start at the beginning of the 1 year program.

[@QuandaleDingle-vz2ep]

My dream is to be a fighter pilot but my vision is bad is there any hope?

[@hugoglenn9741]

The Academy gave waivers to 20/100 at one time, not sure now

[@michaelkeefer4293]

When I was in Highschool back in the mid 80s my dream was to become a fighter pilot, but in my senior year I talked to an Air Force recruiter that told me I could not become a military pilot with corrected vision. So was this true back in the mid 80s? Has the requirement been changed since then from natural perfect vision to corrected vision? Just curious.

[@D3mon_gigglz]

I was an F-16 Crew Chief when I started out in the USAF. I wear glasses, and after talking to my Squadron Commander about my career goals, he sent me to the squadron flight doc to ask that very question. As far as in the early 2000's, you could have corrected vision (glasses) and still be a fighter pilot. Obviously, if they were the thickness of coke bottles...probably not, but he told me over half the pilots in my unit wore glasses. Laser eye surgery was still a relatively new process and there were some types of procedures that, at that time, would have been an automatic disqualification (I don't remember which). Either way, it is still very likely to still be a pilot with corrected vision. With the help of my Squadron Commander and Maintenance Officer, we set out a path to get my college finished and hopefully get me on the path to becoming a pilot. Half-way through finishing my degree, I was diagnosed with Juvenile Diabetes (Type-1)... There was nothing I could do to fix that. My AF career aspirations were over just like that. I was set to get an incentive flight in one of our Squadron's jets at Red Flag in Las Vegas, which would have been the closest thing I would have gotten to flying an F-16 (aside from trim pad engine runs after replacing an engine), but every jet broke so dang hard that month, our 2 D-models became hardline flyers. NOBODY got incentive rides that TDY. *sigh*

[@carterscoconuts6224]

I’m 21 with no degree. Do I still have a chance? I’ve been thinking about this for the past 3 years and have always been wanting to jump in but have heard some things about recruiters trying to just fill positions to make their quota. I’m just a little lost on how things all start and where to get a good foot in the door. I also have no military family so any experiences and suggestions help!

[@Powerlift24]

If ur high school grade is not good enough for college then go to community college first then transfer to university

[@dodgersfan8205]

I remember in the early eighties (before top gun) while in college, military recruiters (Navy) were at the college job fairs pushing not just OCS but they trying to entice you with AOCS. I was a criminal justice major at the time and really thought about it. I believe it was a six-year commitment at the time. The only reason AOCS sounded enticing is because of watching WW2 movies about flying and especially after constantly watching TV sign off High Flight (T38) in the early 70's kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y6XJfJ2rl619bcU. Even though I had a fun career in law enforcement, I regret not joining. The reason is because when 911 occurred, all the officers that were in the reserves got called up to serve, which I also wanted to do. I realized later that I could have had a law enforcement career while being a reserve after I did my six years if I didn't make the military my career. Whether I could have qualified to become a fighter pilot or any other type of pilot in the Navy is a different story, but not being able to serve the country after 911 was my only regret. Videos like this are really helpful for the younger generation to show you have multiple options in your life.

[@danialbadar4213]

I do have FAA commercial pilot license and degree do I still have to go through the flight school and basic training?

[@hugoglenn9741]

If you don’t want to go through basic training and/or flight school you you’ll be worthless to military aviation. How many time commercially have you flown past the speed of sound. How many time’s have you flown 3 feet away at .86 Mach. How many times have you flown 3 feet way in formation at night. How many ILS approaches have you flown at 185 knots. How many PARs have you flown. Your FAA license is worthless

[@shapulke-debile]

idf baby

[@eugenebrown5827]

Does correctable to 20/20 mean you can wear glasses and be a pilot?

[@hugoglenn9741]

If you are not 20/20 you better be at USAFA

[@cdelker_109]

Question here! I already have instrument rating, commercial single & multi, CFI & CFII… now I’ve been just researching joining & flying for the military, will I have to redo all of my training? or is it advantageous that I already have these ratings?

[@rohenry9962]

Definitely advantageous, you will be able to skip ground school.

[@hugoglenn9741]

@@rohenry9962 wrong, wrong, wrong. Everyone goes through the same program

[@Sammy_1418]

Oh.... I gotta wait 4-5 years I'm too young oof

[@beaupirnat2827]

I’m in 9th grade but struggling (mid 80s) in math do you think that I would have a chance or not unless I get my math up

[@hugoglenn9741]

Can you do math at .86 Mach?

[@nooopp]

Is it too late if I’m 24 ???

[@rohenry9962]

Age requirement 18-33

[@702_knight36]

How long do you have to be in college for

[@marshallquigley2027]

I don’t know if you’ve figured this out yet as no one has replied to yet, but you need a bachelors degree, so 4 years.

[@hugoglenn9741]

@@marshallquigley2027 Bachelors, BS to be competitive

[@excellenceinanimation960]

Can you have two 2 year certificates from colleges?

[@hugoglenn9741]

No, but the Guard once had those who were not quite graduated 4 year. Any you in a Guard unit now, the answer otherwise is NO

[@excellenceinanimation960]

@@hugoglenn9741 No I just have two 2 year certs.

[@rippp4631]

Mustache in the thumbnail, no mustache in the video. This is officially clickbait. I'm still liking the video tho.

[@thomascraig6814]

What if I’m 32 with a college degree and suddenly decided that I want to be an Air Force pilot?

[@hugoglenn9741]

Wrong answer. I don’t even think the Guard waives to that age and you’re not a woman.

[@thomascraig6814]

@@hugoglenn9741 What does being a woman have to do with it?

[@hugoglenn9741]

@@thomascraig6814 I’ve done more dealing with personal acquisitions in the AF tan anyone who is going to respond. The AF will get waivers to meet end strength goals. They are alway looking to fill female quotas with anyone under 40 percent BMI. The only people I have ever seen get hired into my unit with unit input were quota babies from higher HQ with coordination from the squadron commander. What I know will dominate what you will ever know on the issue

[@hugoglenn9741]

‘ hired without unit member’s input”

[@hugoglenn9741]

@@thomascraig6814 As an over 7 year Super FAIP and military training officer that crunched all of the UPT numbers I know from what I speak. Also I earned my merit ranking as DG before the Flight commander BS rating changed the merit aspect.

[@trevorgwelch7412]

How do you become a CIA pilot ?

[@Martin69315]

Sheesh I’m only in high school

[@indy500tabasco8]

i got allergies to gossipers

[@mikehunts1748]

I’m 23 yr old with no degree Im I cooked?

[@caroleinwv]

Got to love ❤️ those "Fat Girls" too!

[@MaxAfterburnerusa]

LOL C17 is one of my favorite jets!

[@bimerev]

I'm borned in wrong country... :(

[@Kevin.valdes7]

Can a felon become a fighter pilot ?

[@rohenry9962]

I don’t think so.

[@hugoglenn9741]

A felon can’t be and Officer much less a pilot

[@Kevin.valdes7]

@@hugoglenn9741 yes they can I already talked to a Recuiter

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