Your Career Prospects
All Officers incur an initial Training Return of Service of at least three years following completion of basic professional training. However, you will join the RAF on an Initial Commission of 12 years and may be selected to serve on a pension earning commission of 20 years’ service or age 40( whichever is the later), during this time.
Promotion to the rank of Flight Lieutenant is on a time served / satisfactory service basis 2½ years from completing IOT, or 1½ years if you have a technical Master’ s degree. Further promotion to Squadron Leader and above is by competitive selection.
Ongoing Development
You will have all the personal development opportunities and career prospects of your civilian counterparts- and possibly more- together with the chance to work around the world, gaining unique engineering experiences in the process.
As well as RAF training packages and courses linked to outside professional bodies, we actively support individual study programmes at every level.
You could have opportunities to apply for Advanced Project Management Courses and also take on Masters’ degree and civilian short university courses, either full-time or part-time while you remain on full salary. We have special agreements with a number Professional Engineering Institutions( PEIs) to attain professional status and the RAF currently has the funding, subject to meeting certain eligibility criteria, to support PEI membership and reward Professional Registration.
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