Flying Foundation Tours
Your first two tours you will generally be posted to one aircraft type in the UK. During this time, you will continue to develop your new skills and knowledge to become an expert in employing air power on a front line air system.
Lifestyle
Like most people in the RAF, you will move around RAF bases in the UK and overseas, to carry out your training and operational role. This work will be conducted in allied airspace or carried out on operations near / over hostile territory. You will spend a proportion of your career overseas, for anything from a few days to a few months and as your career develops, you could become responsible for mission planning and instructional duties to expand your portfolio of skills and expertise.
Each job has a unique purpose with scope for variety and achievement to give you a challenging career that will see you explore the world.
Your Career Prospects
You will join the RAF as an aviator under an initial 12 year engagement. You will hold the rank of acting Sergeant during your professional training. Once you start your front-line role, and you are assessed as being capable of operating independently, you will be promoted to substantive Sergeant & immediately transferred to a pension earning engagement of 20 years’ service or to age 40, whichever is the latter. Further promotion to the rank of Flight Sergeant and Master Aircrew is by selection, with commissioning opportunities to Weapon Systems Officer( WSO) available once you have proved yourself as an NCA WSOp.
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