CAFB to add PTN to UPT training

SAN ANTONIO, Texas - Beginning May 31, Air Force flying training wings across the Air Education and Training Command will formally begin integrating innovations from ‘Pilot Training Next’ into the undergraduate pilot training (UPT) curriculum, according to 19th AF officials at the PTN Technology Expo here March 12-13. The idea is to blend training approaches and content into syllabi for specific T-1 Jayhawk, T-6A Texan II, and T-38C Talon aircraft flights at UPT wings to accelerate student learning and build better aviators. “Introducing the technology into our normal pilot production flight rooms is the next natural step to scaling these concepts across the flying training enterprise,” said Maj. Gen. Patrick Doherty, 19th AF commander. For Col. Samantha Weeks, commander of the 14th Flying Training Wing at Columbus Air Force Base, Miss., pushing the envelope of technology integration into learning is a natural progression in the future of pilot training. Using technology to “break long-held, industrial-age training paradigms” will allow the AF to “fly higher, further and faster,” she said. “The Air Force is giving us free reign to innovate without a great deal of constraint,” she said. In doing so, it enables CAFB to graduate better and more lethal and ready AF pilots to accomplish the mission. (Source: Air Education and Training Command 03/14/19)