Until pilots are robotic, this needs to be solved soon. Because oddly enough, pilots like to fly planes.
Amazingly, the Air Force might actually allow desperation to push them to the logical solution:
Currently, the only Air Force personnel eligible to be pilots are commissioned officers, and achieving officer status requires a four-year college degree.
"Enlisted volunteers will be pioneers in innovating Air Force aviator recruitment, selection, and training processes by demonstrating the potential of non-college graduates to succeed in a rigorous pilot training environment," Leahy, whose command is responsible for basic military and tactical training for Air Force personnel, wrote in the email.
These "pioneers" follow in the footsteps of the Army Air Corps where enlisted personnel once flew combat planes before the Air Force got all wound up in an officer and a gentlemen attitude.
But by terming his a new thing that must be studied, keeping it small-scale, and not even letting the enlisted graduates go on to fly in the Air Force, I strongly suspect the Air Force won't commit to the logical solution before robots take the stick away from people.
Or until we lose control of the skies which we've grown accustomed to having since 1944.
