Wanting to join AF and have questions

By airforcetalk on 12/14/08 11:09pm
4 Comments

I am a junior in HS and am thinking about joining the AF when I graduate. I want so bad to be a fighter pilot, I also wear glasses. I want nothing more than to fly. I know the AF website basically by heart, so I wanted to ask people with experience in the AF or anyone who knows anything about it, if I can qualify for flying as long as my vision is corrected to 20/20, no matter what my vision may be? I know that in order to be a pilot you have to be an officer, so if I joined would I have to go into the DEP? Please let me know if you have any answers for me, I am really enthusiastic to hear your replies.

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Hey, another site to go to

Submitted by airforce259 on 6/30/08 2:16pm.

Hey, another site to go to for answers about being a pilot/officer is airforceots.com
I can't answer your question, but someone there probably can!

Hey, i have the 411 on

Submitted by F15EFlyguy72 on 6/30/08 2:41pm.

Hey, i have the 411 on flying, i know quite a bit about flyging, for one thing, i am an aspiring pilot myself and 2, i was a Crew Chief on The F-15E Strike Eagle. hit me up at brmflyguy72@aol.com or message me on AIM/yahoo as F15EFlgyuy72

ttyl and good luck,
Brock

Hey, one more thing you

Submitted by airforce274 on 6/30/08 5:48pm.

Hey, one more thing you should look into is AFROTC, thats something your going to want to search out b4 you consider OTS.

Brock

I am sorry to say that if you

Submitted by airforce346 on 7/8/08 8:59pm.

I am sorry to say that if you don't have atleast near perfect vision you can't be a pilot. You also can't get corrective surgery and become one either. The reason for that is that lasics will get undone at a certain speed and the simulators and reall planes will reverse the surgery