{"id":5857,"date":"2010-06-11T00:30:55","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T06:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=5857"},"modified":"2010-06-10T21:41:47","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T03:41:47","slug":"air-force-announces-dedicated-uav-pilot-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/11\/air-force-announces-dedicated-uav-pilot-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force Announces Dedicated UAV Pilot Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After some <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/30\/air-force-graduates-first-non-pilot-pilots\/\">early experiments<\/a>, the Air Force announced that it is establishing an official, dedicated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123208561\">&#8220;undergraduate RPA training (URT)&#8221; pipeline<\/a>.\u00a0 The first class is slated to begin in October 2010.<\/p>\n<p>According to the release, <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/05\/uavs-by-any-other-name\/\">RPA (UAV)<\/a> pilots will be part of the 18X career field, which is a rated field equivalent to traditional aviators.\u00a0 They will receive <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/17\/controversy-over-uav-flight-pay\/\">aviation incentive pay<\/a>, and incur a 6 year active duty service commitment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After some early experiments, the Air Force announced that it is establishing an official, dedicated &#8220;undergraduate RPA training (URT)&#8221; pipeline.\u00a0 The first class is slated to begin in October 2010. According to the release, RPA (UAV) pilots will be part of the 18X career field, which is a rated field equivalent to traditional aviators.\u00a0 They will receive aviation incentive pay, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[612,2,32,232,53],"class_list":["post-5857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-18x","tag-military","tag-pilot-training","tag-rpa","tag-uav"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}