I have a general military question about pilot training. If one is trained mainly in one aspect of flying, say air superiority, would he be as well trained and responsive in other areas, like first strike.
I’m asking this question along the lines of, if a plane can do everything, whether a well trained pilot can do all things well as well?
That’s not to say that a well-trained pilot can’t do everything a pilot is supposed to do, but like any job, if you specialize in a specific area it will generally hurt you in other areas.
Another example would be accounting. There are general accountants, who can pretty much do everything. However, if you sent him into an audit position, he probably wouldn’t be as proficient as an auditor as somebody who has been an auditor for thirty years.
A fighter pilot can do anything that a bomber pilot, passenger/cargo plane pilot can do, but will just be bored while doing it.
But a chopper pilot or bush plane pilot, that’s a different thing altogether, I think.
After fighter training of a young pilot, he or she is then trained on specific aircraft and its operational envelop and techniques as they are assigned to wings that use that aircraft.
Separate training on special simulators and classrooms.