How much training did world war 2 pilots have?

mostly Australian world war 2 pilots


what did they have to do?|||during the battle of britain, some pilots has as little as 50 combined hours of in air experiance|||They trained in britan as they helped go on trainee missions. Pearl harbor is a good example but i dont really like that movie. They make it look like ben aflek won ww2. haha. Funny

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|||The Wizzo has it right. In addition...towards the end of the war, the japanese were actually sending up pilots that had only trained on the ground and had never actually piloted anything more than a stick and a chair. This was done because of the lack of available aircraft to train them.|||Depends on what equipment they were on, but some had as little as 100-150 hours as I understand it.


Maybe some with a little more knowledge of the subject can narrow it down|||It really varied according to which year of the war you're referring . Once the Commonwealth air training scheme was underway in Canada, training was standardized: normally, new pilots had about 100-200 hours behind them before they showed up at a new unit. However, in early years of the war, they were flying operationally with as little as 50 hours TT, and only some 10 hours of that was solo/advanced training.


In contrast their German, Italian, Japanese opponents were averaging over 200 hours of training, but as the war drew on this was reduced to as little as 40/50 hours (20 hours for "Special Attack Squadrons" the official name of "Kamikaze" units.)


To put this in perspective, a pilot/crew with only 50 hours TT barely knew how to operate the aircraft, navigate to and from the target and land. There would be zero experience in fighting the weapon system. What's worse, and is not really written about in the popular literature, is such a crewmember jeopardizes everyone else in his flight, as he can't do his job; so other more experienced crewdogs have to cover his hinder. Personally, I would love to meet up with someone that inexperienced, means a quick kill for me.|||several weeks|||Whaa hell, we'uns hadda take the train alla way ta Chicaga, then on down to San Antone, then on out ta Frisco, then changed thar mind an BACK ta Chicagy, then down ta Wright Patt and out ta Bost'n. We wuz well TRAINED back durin the biggun, ahhl tell ya what!