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Source for 600 hour flight training claim.

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Hello!

I noticed that the following claim is not properly sourced:

Primary Flight School was at NAS Pensacola and it taught basic flying and landing. It used the NAF N3N or Stearman N2S Primary trainers, dubbed “Yellow Perils” from their bright yellow paintscheme (and the inexperience of the student pilots). Basic Flight School was broken into two parts: part one taught instrument flying and night flying and part two taught formation flying and gunnery; an additional part three stage for single-engined aircraft pilots taught carrier landing. They used the North American SNJ Basic trainer. Advanced Flight Training qualified the pilot on either a single-engined fighter, dive-bomber or torpedo bomber or a multiple-engined transport, patrol plane or bomber; graduates were classed as Naval Aviators and received gold Naval Aviator wings. Each graduate had around 600 total flight hours, with approximately 200 flight hours on front-line Navy aircraft. Pilots who washed out were assigned as regular ensigns.

Trying to google it, I had only managed to find the following website whose verbiage supports it: http://www.scharch.org/Ed_Scharch/03-usn-v5-prog.htm

Years 1942 to 1945 During the war, the USN pilot training program started to ramp up. It had similar stages as the army's aviation program, except it added a Carrier Qualification stage for fighter, torpedo and dive-bomber pilots. Each graduate had around 600 total flight hours, with approximately 200 flight hours on front-line Navy aircraft. In 1942 the program graduated 10,869 aviators, almost twice as many as had completed the program in the previous 8 years. In 1943 there were 20,842 graduates; in 1944, 21,067; and in 1945 there were 8,880. Thus in the period 1942 to 1945, the U.S. Navy produced 61,658 pilots - more than 2.5 times the number of pilots as the Imperial Japanese Navy.

Should I reference the linked page, can someone please confirm if this is valid? 2001:4C4D:1514:7E00:9456:DE30:F627:D04A (talk) 23:42, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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