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Widening the training pipeline : are warrant officer instructor pilots the best solution to increase pilot production? / Aaron R. Ewing, Major, USAF ; Air University, Air Command and Staff College.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Ewing, Aaron R., author.
- Series:
- Wright flyer paper ; no. 77.
- Wright flyer paper ; no. 77
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Air Force--Operational readiness.
- United States.
- United States. Air Force--Recruiting, enlistment, etc.
- United States. Air Force--Personnel management.
- United States. Air Force.
- Air pilots, Military--Training of--United States.
- Air pilots, Military.
- Air pilots, Military--Supply and demand--United States.
- Air pilots, Military--Supply and demand.
- Air pilots, Military--Training of.
- Armed Forces--Operational readiness.
- Armed Forces--Personnel management.
- Recruiting and enlistment.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 33 pages) : illustrations (some color).
- Other Title:
- Are warrant officer instructor pilots the best solution to increase pilot production?
- Place of Publication:
- Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama : Air University Press, Muir S. Fairchild Research Information Center, 2020.
- Summary:
- "The United States Air Force is struggling to cope with a worldwide pilot shortage that has left the service over 2,000 pilots short of what is needed to fully man its squadrons. With pilot retention declining in a time of unprecedented airline hiring, the service is desperately trying to find ways to increase pilot production. To recover from the current shortage, the Air Force has determined it needs to increase annual production from 1,200 to 1,600 pilots per year. Despite identifying a need for increased production, the service has yet to identify a clear method to accomplish this task. A 33 percent increase of students will necessitate an increase of undergraduate pilot training (UPT) instructors; where the Air Force intends to find additional instructors given the current pilot shortage is unclear. This research paper seeks to fill this gap in knowledge by answering the question, are warrant officers the best solution to increase UPT instructor manning to achieve the overarching goal of producing 1,600 pilots per year? To answer the question, this study used a problem/solution framework to compare four methods of increasing pilot production: warrant officer UPT instructors, contracted civilian UPT instructors, increasing the number of first assignment instructor pilots, and timeline reductions via the Pilot Training Next program. The four methods were assessed against five criteria: timeliness of implementation, personnel cost savings, training squadron manning stability, impact on operational squadron manning, and quality of training. Ultimately, this study concluded that warrant officers are not the best option, however, neither are any of the other methods. The problem of increasing pilot production is too complex to be solved with a single, silver-bullet solution. While no single method could sufficiently satisfy all five criteria, applying all four methods in parallel does have the potential to meet the Air Force's goal of producing 1,600 pilots per year."--Abstract
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Overview of the study
- Nature of the problem
- Purpose of the study and research questions
- Research structure and methodology
- Literature review
- Factors driving the pilot shortage
- Pilot shortages by fixed wing mission set
- History of the warrant officer in the USAF
- Warrant officer utilization in sister services
- Warrant officer accession timelines
- Alternative options to increase pilot production
- Comparison of warrant officers and alternatives
- Analysis
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- "Accepted by Air University Press August 2019 and published September 2020"--Page ii.
- In scope of the U.S. Government Publishing Office Cataloging and Indexing Program (C&I) and Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP).
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 31-33).
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Air University Press website, viewed on September 10, 2020).
- OCLC:
- 1194591449
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