National Pilot Competition Rate Hits All-Time High
[Asia Economy Yang Nak-gyu, Military Specialist Reporter] This year’s recruitment competition rate for National Pilots has been revealed to be the highest ever. The National Pilot event allows participants to experience flight missions as pilots aboard domestically produced Air Force aircraft such as the T-50 and KT-1. The event began in 2007 and has been held biennially.
According to the Air Force on the 23rd, a total of 2,143 applicants applied for the 8th National Pilot recruitment, which selects only 4 final candidates, from the 1st to the 20th of this month, recording a competition rate of 535:1.
The highest competition rate until now was during the 4th National Pilot selection in 2013. At that time, 872 people applied, resulting in a competition rate of 218:1. However, this year, with 1,271 more applicants, a total of 2,143 applied, breaking the record for the highest competition rate ever.
The composition of applicants has also diversified, with participants from various sectors of society including students, small business owners, office workers, broadcasters, YouTubers, religious figures, and athletes.
The Air Force comprehensively evaluates applicants based on self-introduction letters and motivation statements to select 40 candidates in the first round. Then, through video interviews evaluated by active-duty judges and former National Pilots, 8 candidates are chosen. The final evaluation, the flight environment adaptation training, is conducted at the Air Force Aerospace Medical Center and includes acceleration tolerance training (G-TEST), emergency escape training, and medical examinations by military doctors. Through this process, 4 National Pilots are finally selected.
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The final selected National Pilots will experience about one hour of flight at the ‘Seoul International Aerospace and Defense Exhibition (Seoul ADEX 2021)’ held at Seoul Airport in October. They will be appointed as National Pilots by Air Force Chief of Staff Park In-ho, who will personally award them the red scarf, a symbol of Air Force pilots.
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