{"id":173309,"date":"2025-08-29T10:41:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T14:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=173309"},"modified":"2025-08-29T10:48:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T14:48:32","slug":"aircraft-carriers-not-required","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=173309","title":{"rendered":"Aircraft Carrier Not Required"},"content":{"rendered":"

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T-45 Goshawk<\/em><\/p>\n

Carrier Qualifications Axed From Graduation Requirements For New Navy Fighter Pilots<\/h3>\n

The change in carrier qualification requirements is a huge watershed moment that has ramifications for the Navy’s future jet trainer plans.<\/em>
\nJoseph Trevithick<\/strong><\/p>\n

Individuals training to become U.S. Navy tactical jet pilots are no longer required to take off and land from aircraft carriers before being winged as Naval Aviators. This is a huge change in training requirements and has important ramifications for the service\u2019s plans to replace its current carrier-capable T-45 Goshawk jet trainers.<\/p>\n

Our colleagues at Task & Purpose first reported the elimination of carrier landing qualifications from the graduation requirements for the Tactical Air (Strike) aviator training pipeline earlier today. This pipeline currently produces new pilots to fly the Navy\u2019s F\/A-18E\/F Super Hornet and F-35C
\nfighters, as well as EA-18G Growler electronic warfare aircraft.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe final strike carrier landing qualification occurred in March of 2025,\u201d a Navy official told Task & Purpose. \u201cStudents in the strike pipeline, those training to fly F\/A-18s, F-35s, and EA-18Gs, are no longer required to qualify by landing on a carrier prior to graduation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Naval aviators who come out of the Tactical Air pipeline will now conduct their first carrier qualifications when they reach a Fleet Replacement Squadron (FRS). These units provide initial training on the specific type of tactical jet that those individuals have been assigned to fly.
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\n\u201cCarrier qualification is more than catching the wire. It is the exposure to the carrier environment and how an individual deals with it,\u201d an experienced U.S. Navy strike fighter pilot told TWZ back in 2020. \u201cThe pattern, the communications, the nuance, the stress. The ability to master this is one of our competitive advantages.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

TWZ<\/a><\/p>\n

The next jet trainer the Navy has in mind isn’t even capable of practice<\/strong> carrier operations on land-based airfields. Big Navy is hanging its hat on virtual and simulation for initial training, then relying on the FRS to pick up the slack on actual carrier ops. Standing by for Mick’s opinion, but I have a pretty good idea what it’ll be.<\/p>\n

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