[Mr.Unique]

A couple years ago we had two test pilots who were trained by the military and now work for Boeing at our house for dinner.

Military test pilots who had never flown a T-37, T-38, T-41, T-2, T-6....?

[fireman15]

These two claimed that they were not trained to fly aircraft that were not fly by wire. They were very sincere about this. They said that they would not know how to fly one of our airplanes without instruction. I do not know if this means that they were not given introductory flights in any aircraft with conventional control linkages, or some type of introductory course. My wife and I were both shocked by what we were told. We have numerous retired military pilots on the airfield that we live on but they were trained in a different era. My brother-in-law is currently a full bird colonel and is currently a “squadron commander” in the Air Force. When I get a chance I will ask him about the current training regimen.