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Amazing Coast Guard Pilot Careers For The Adventurers

September 12, 2008 By admin

The United States Coast Guard is the longest continual seagoing service in the United States, having been at sea since 1790. The Coast Guard has featured pilots in its service since the early 1900?s. The Coast Guard motto is ?Semper Paratus,? which means Always Ready. Serving in the Coast Guard, as an Aviation Officer is an elite job, the Coast Guard is the smallest of the Armed Forces. Coast Guard Pilots must be accomplished all weather pilots, as they will be flying in some of the most challenging weather facing aviation pilots anywhere. The Coast Guard Pilot candidate will fly different specialized flight training aircraft including fixed wing basic aircraft.

Coast Guard Pilot Training.

Coast Guard Aircraft cover a spectrum of operations from long range fixed wing aircraft that patrol along the International Date Line in Alaska, to helicopters operating off of flight deck cutters. Much of the training for Coast Guard Aviation is conducted at the Navy Air Command in Pensacola Florida. The Coast Guard Officer that entered the Aviation specialty can expect to spend the majority of their time supplying flying skills or actually flying, as there are a limited number of aviation pilots across the Coast Guard Service. Training for Coast Guard Pilots begins with flight School. Service as a USCG Aviator is a highly competitive occupation, to serve as a pilot or Aviator in the Coast Guard you have to be at the best of your game. Coast Guard Pilots fly both propeller driven Fixed wing aircraft, high Speed jet aircraft, and a number of different types of helicopters in support of the missions that the Coast Guard has. An officer who is a graduate of the Coast Guard Academy will serve a tour or partial tour at sea before being accepted into flight school training. Coast Guard pilots fly both fixed and rotary wing aircraft, most of the aircraft in the Coast Guard are in fact helicopters, but there are a number of fixed wing aircraft also that fly in support of the Coast Guard mission.

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Flight Training for a Coast Guard Pilot lasts from 18 to 24 months and covers basic ground school subjects, aircraft systems, academics, sea and land survival, followed by a series of intermediate and primary types of flight training. Officers who pursue training in the Coast Guard as aviators can choose between fixed wing aviation and rotary wing (helicopters) in their flight careers.

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  1. Richadr Duran says

    February 17, 2009 at 10:27 pm

    Is it posible to receive a booklet showing what a pilot trainee goes through to become a pilot in the US. Coast Guard? Thank you for your time.
    Richard Duran

  2. Arthur Dyer says

    June 4, 2010 at 3:19 pm

    I plan to attend Embry Riddle Aeronauical University fall. Will the coast guard help pay for school if i were to enlist as a fixed wing avaitor after i get my degree, and will those certificates i earn be transferable to the USCG Academy?

  3. Rex Macdougal says

    July 21, 2010 at 9:53 am

    Aurthur- if you enlist then you will not be a pilot, you can help maintain the aircraft or jump out of them though. Also, if you attend the coast guard academy nothing transfers. It would be like you never had the certificates.

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