I want to be a F-15 pilot

Real men fight on the ground.

>>211773536 (OP)
why not do the next best thing and become a philipinx air force fighter pilot

Id want to be a 727 pilot
Although thats probably not possible these days

>>211773664
probably still used for freight somewhere

I want to be a MiG-21bis pilot armed with nuclear ordinance

>>211773536 (OP)
i was in the airforce pilot training selection but i failed almost immediately. shit's hard and i wasnt really motivated i mostly just played video games all day at the time.

idk could be nice, especially now since theyre buying new ones

>>211774034
my father dropped out because he didn’t want to be a WSO for f4 phantom

>>211774131
why was that considered a bad role?
they eliminated a metric fuckton of egyptians

>>211774034
what job did you get re-assigned to after you failed?

>>211774034
>>211774131
How hard is it to get in? Is it ultra competitive?

>>211774280
because he’s retarded and thought he will have less jobs in the civilian market

>>211774362
yes, you need excellent grades in school and willingness to do a degree in physics during the army

>>211773536 (OP)
>>211774034
how does one go from mid-20s fat NEET to piloting a 100 million dollar death Machine?

>>211774362
you have many months or even a year+ between the first time you show up at the conscription office for paperwork+medical check (often while you're in highschool still) and when you're called to go to bootcamp. in the meantime you're considered a 'defense service candidate' and it's sort of a chaotic and very obscure system where you can literally call/mail/contact army units and ask to go get tested for selection to those, and if you dont get selected and 'pulled out' of the default route you get assigned something automatically (but they ask you to rank preferences and usually people get one of their top ones)

anyways i wasnt selected for the airforce but did pass selection to another unit and dropped out because of illness/injury during bootcamp. i wont say where i ended up for privacy's sake but its a vary chaotic process in the idf no two soldiers have the same story of how they got where they got

>>211774447
>degree in physics
What fer

>>211774536
do you regret not becoming a pilot? what do you do now?

>>211774536
>dropped out because of illness/injury during bootcamp
not surprised kek
>>211774569
he spends most of his time converting inane tiktok slut or food videos to webm and spamming them on 4chan now
aside from that he also simps for the jewish nationalist far right

>>211774569
i do have coworkers/friends that are army reserve pilots (after their normal pilot service is done, they do a fuckton more reserve duty than any part of the army theyre basically 1/4 soldier in terms of time spent on it)

i feel like i'd be ok in that job but i definitely wouldnt be a long term career pilot

>>211774490
>go back to school for a technical degree
>do royal navy UOTC program (you missed age cuttoff for RAF)
>get good grades above your peers who were too busy drinking and shagging
>stop being fat
>get a pilot slot and go to flight training
>study hard and pass with top marks so you get assigned to a fighter instead of a cargo plane or helicopter
>profit

what are you waiting for lad

>>211774551
Lots of concepts from physics come into play when flying a plane.

>>211775001
you dont need uni physics education whatsoever to be an army pilot. this is just a perk/reward to them to get a uni degree on army time and dime and to give the army more prestige

>>211773664
i heard this exact plane fly over bogota one evening last year
i thought it was a fighter jet it was that loud
whipped out the flightradar and was amazed that 727s are still flying

>>211775169
Probably was a different time during the 70's but back then it was considered a requirement for officers in other armies to have a degree to be commissioned

>>211774679
gave this nigga the full step by step guide and he pretended he didn't see it jfl

>>211773536 (OP)
>>211774034
Is the eagle on the tail supposed to be a bald eagle or not?

>>211777821
dont think you can tell that from just the head
eagle on the tail is 69 hammer squadron, you can also see their emblem above it (black and yellow). its the army's heavy bombing squadron

>>211775169
having a solid understanding of physics is very helpful for a fighter pilot thoughbeit. though I'd say a mechanical or electrical engineering degree would cover enough too.

you need to be able to understand the dynamics of flight itself, the performance envelope of your plane and that of the enemy, the factors that govern how air combat works (plane, missile performance etc), and most importantly, be able to grasp how all the systems on board your plane function to know what to do when they're acting up

>>211778154
i played warthunder im an air combat expert and you dont need to study uni physics for that

>>211778154
you can learn all of this with a nutrition science degree doe, in reality pilots just have to do relatively simple math on the fly

>>211778318
if you've spent 5000 hours in war thunder you've put more effort into it than the average physics grad
>>211778344
it's not about doing math on the fly, it's about having the prior understanding necessary to quickly pick up necessary concepts and insights.

fighter pilots are the ranked PVP players of aviation while everyone else does PVE on easy. the difference in the level of comprehension required is like night and day. you need to understand every system on your jet, the sensors and the ways in which they might fail or be spoofed, the weapons systems, make sense of various disjoint observations across multiple information sources, and understand the E-M dynamics of both your own plane and the missiles flying around to survive

>>211778811
implying military bomber pilots, reconnaissance pilots, electronic warfare pilots and special operations pilots don't also plan for all of these things as well.

I'd really like to fly a SU-25 but it's apparently extremely dangerous.

>>211779066
lol y tho

>>211774034
I'll hunt kikes pilot in southeast asia like mossad hunt nazi in south america.

>>211781286
I like the concept of a flying tank powerful enough to destroy armored infantry on the ground