Originally posted by kopiosatu:
I was doing servicing one day, when a senior was telling me about how much fighter pilots were paid compared to the chopper pilots.
In the conversation, he said that in the USAF, they glorify the chopper pilots more than the fighter pilots. Reason being that chopper pilots are more 'into the action', a higher chance of getting bullets nailed into them, smashed by RPGs or getting shot by fighter jets.
Whereas the fighter pilots are further away, and most of the time the only thing that can hit them would be the anti-air artillery, another fighter pilot or their own stupid mistakes.
Locally the thinking is not so. Fighter pilots are glorified, chopper and transport pilots ain't the top of the heap.
What say you?
i think in the US, the army has their own choppers too. and given the inter-service rivalry there, dunno, they will glorify their own chopper pilots so as to outdo the army's?