They are used for undergraduate pilot training, as well as RPA (drone) pilot training. I am not 💯% sure about instructor pilots, but unless it’s changed, since I was in the USAF, instructors will only train in the T-6 if they will be instructors IN the T-6. If they will be T-38 instructors, then they train in the T-38. My son will soon be flying the T-6, as he is going into RPA pilot training.
The new students will train first in the T-6. The fighter pilots will train in the T-38 and learn fighter tactics and formation flying before the head to their airframe training.
The heavy aircraft pilots will train in the T-1 before they move to their airframe.
We do this at several airbases thru AETC.
PIT for future T-6 IPs is at Randolph AFB.
Is your son going to MQ-9s, or does he know yet?
Hey, congrats Mark17 and to your son of course.
They are used for undergraduate pilot training, as well as RPA (drone) pilot training
More precisely, the RPA guys will be trained in the T-6 simulator.