• As early as BCT, you’ll be exposed to air power via multiple flyovers by Air Force top-line aircraft.
• Instruction in the concepts of flight, navigation and operations.
• Nearly all cadets are enrolled in a soaring course, where you’ll pilot a sailplane and even have the chance to solo.
• Opportunity to take an elective course in free-fall parachuting and possibly receive your basic military jump wings.
• Some Cadets will become instructors in various aviation and airmanship programs.
• Cadets who desire and are qualified for Undergraduate Pilot Training (UPT) after graduation, take a flight-screening course during their first-class year, in which they learn to fly and solo a propeller-driven aircraft.
• “Project Fledgling” voluntary aviation program includes a classroom introduction to basic aviation principles, as well as “flying time” in T-6 simulators.
• Elective aviation courses provide firsthand flight experience while furthering Cadets’ knowledge and understanding of the flight environment by teaching flight concepts, basic and advanced aviation, and instrument principles and procedures.
  

Please refer to the Academy catalog for additional information.