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n. A pilot trained in using and assigned to pilot a fighter plane.
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n. a military or naval pilot of fighter planes
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A fighter pilot is a military aviator trained to engage in air-to-air, and often air-to-ground combat while in the cockpit of a fighter aircraft. Fighter pilots undergo specialized training in aerial warfare and dogfighting (close range aerial combat). A fighter pilot with at least five air-to-air kills becomes known as an ace.
Fighter Pilot is a BBC television documentary series that was broadcast in the UK on BBC One, from 9 September to 28 October 1981. It was about the training of fast jet pilots in the Royal Air Force and followed the progress of six candidates as they went through the three-year programme. The BBC and the RAF first agreed to work together on a documentary in 1978, when there was a poor level of recruitment and a shortage of pilots in the service. At the time it cost £1 million to train a pilot (£4 million in 2011). The training process, from selection to operational service has a high drop-out rate and only one of the six original candidates went on to fly fast jets.
Three of the candidates were airmen who already served in the RAF, while the others were from civilian backgrounds (qualified nurse, zoologist and milkman/farm worker). The series was produced by Colin Strong, who closely followed the candidates for three-and-a-half years. To gain a detailed insight in to the process, he undertook the RAF basic flying training course himself and flew solo in a Jet Provost.
Usage examples of "fighter pilot".
And, he-Hawk Hunter, the greatest fighter pilot ever-could not just hang up the wings and hide.
Besides being the ultimate fighter pilot, Hunter was also a kind of human radar.
When flying one-against-two, the main goal of any fighter pilot was to keep both bogeys on the same side of your plane, To never get caught in the middle.
Kell selected a clean jumpsuit in TIE fighter pilot black and began to put it on.
Garn speaks on Ace's behalf, and he is accepted as a fighter pilot.
She ran her fingers over the navigation panels in the cockpit, closing her eyes and wondering what it must have been like twenty-some years ago to be a fighter pilot in the Battle of Yavin 4.
A sud-den maneuver could startle a TIE-fighter pilot into veering straight into the path of one of his fellows.
He's as frantic and resentful as a fighter pilot in a tractor beam with the orders he's under.
Submarines are another matter, but there is no sense asking a fighter pilot about that.
The son was a fighter pilot who cracked up on landing after a mission.