How good are Chinese pilots?

15 hours a week? i really dont believe that. the pilots would have extremly stressed facial rinkles, and their ears would be bleeding!!!

15 hours a week is 750 hours a year!!! thats more than 3 times the u.s training time!!!

I play BF2 (Battlefield 2) and play as a pilot whenever i can get my hand on a jet. I believe that een a desktop sim can teach VERY basic stuff, like tactics, at what range is most effective and what risky maneuvers are worth taking.

But I will say that there are many drawbacks, after all I shot down a F-35B with a J-10, basically a F-16 shooting down a F-35, is that even possible? I think they designed the game for playablility not realism. I don't care if a newb in a F-35 shoots me down 100 times in a row for as long as I learn how in actuallity to shoot him down at least once.

MIGleader said:

15 hours a week? i really dont believe that. the pilots would have extremly stressed facial rinkles, and their ears would be bleeding!!!
15 hours a week is 750 hours a year!!! thats more than 3 times the u.s training time!!!

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The article also said ROCAF's pilot to aircraft ratio was 1.5 pilots : 1 plane, so on per pilot basis, the number of flight hours annually will be higher than other AF with higher pilot : aircraft ratio.

However I highly doubt those pilots fly 750 hours/year in the F-16. According to the F-16 pilot database, ROCAF only has 2 pilots with 1,000 hour and 2,000 hour of flight in the F-16:


Let's look at Lt. Col Tseng:

First ROCAF pilot to log 1000 hours in the F-16. Deputy squadron commander for 4th FG of the 455th Wing. Received F-16 transition training in 1996 as one of the first pilots of the ROCAF. He has flown almost 3000 hours in military aircraft like the T-33, T-34, T-38, F-5, IDF and F-16.

I think it's obvious that the pilot's training is not done entirely on F-16's.

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Now let's look at Lt Col Michael J Brill, with over 5,200 hours on the F-16:

Brill is continuing a tradition he began in 1993 when he was the first U.S. pilot to surpass 3,000 hours in the "Viper." Achieving 4,000 hours in the same fighter aircraft is a rare achievement, and Brill, a reservist for almost half of his time flying the F-16, has averaged 225 hours per year in his 17+ years flying the aircraft.

From above example, we can see that even with someone who has logged 5,200+ hours on the F-16, didn't get to fly 750 hours/year on the same plane. =P