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Article: Air Force chopper pilot training splits from Army.(Flight Training)(Flight School XXI)
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- National Defense
- Article date:
- December 1, 2004
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After more than three decades of learning the ropes alongside Army pilots at the flight school in Fort Rucker, Ala., the Air Force has chosen its own training program for novice helicopter aviators.
The pivotal reason for the change is the Air Force's incompatibility's with the Army's new training concept called Flight School XXI, which stress increased flying hours in combat helicopters, such as the Black Hawk, the CH-47 Chinook, the Apache and the OH-58 Kiowa Warrior.
In the old schoolhouse model, both the Army and the Air Force used the Vietnam-era UH-1 Huey to teach students combat skills. Beginners would learn flight instrumentation on the Bell ...