Posted on Jun 7, 2019
Jim George
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Hello all, new member here contemplating Army Aviation. I was wondering If anyone knows how the training works out to become a pilot? A full process timeline would be great! Also I was wondering how long the service commitment will be total (including training) would be?
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6 year commitment after the completion of 2 years training, for a total of 8 years. Roughly, training is broken down into basic training, WOCS, WOBC, SERE, common core and advanced airframe. You can look up each individual segment for more details. There's a lot.
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CW3 MH-60 Pilot
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That commitment is about to be for 8 years after completion of the training due to the issues we are having with retention.
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WO1 Flight Operations Specialist
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and be prepared to drink through a fire hose. Any aviation knowledge beforehand can help but even then, the Army will try to shove 500 hours worth of information within a 50 hour timespan.
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CW2 Pilot
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And 10 for fixed wing! CW3 (Join to see)
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CW3 MH-60 Pilot
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Wow! That’s a dangerous move haha. I bet the flight pay will be reduced as well! #abovethebestCW2 (Join to see)
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LTC Jason Mackay
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Jim George welcome to RP. The topic tags you have actually go to RP web pages that aggregate resources and discussions on your topics. The 153A tag is fairly mature and senior warrant officers like CW5 Sam R. Baker actively contribute to them. Take a look, particularly the About tab.
https://www.rallypoint.com/specialties/153a-rotary-wing-aviator-aircraft-nonspecific/about
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CW5 Sam R. Baker
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Agreed sir, topic saturation occurs often due to new request for information arrive in the answers or discussion areas. RP normally is able to consolidate or meld common topics and when it comes to Warrant Officer flight training accession and training, I have a dsddy or two experience and knowledge to share.

Currently through RP contact, more than 50 are aviators today having reached out and tightened up their applications.
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Jim George
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Can you point to any specific threads?
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