Could save a lot of money and time if you developed the pilot skills first and then did the commissioning with training afterwards. As for a degree, if either a science stream or an arts stream will suffice than neither is needed. To qualify to join the nuclear programme in the USN a degree in nuclear science is required. It is specific knowledge. What specific knowledge does a BA or a BSC supply to the craft of flying an aircraft other than demonstrating an ability to learn which can be ascertained in less than two weeks on a flight training programme via the very first examination. To add further, a degree programme provides 4 years of general knowledge very little of which (other than perhaps math) is applicable.
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Sounds like a degree isn’t needed then. Rather it is a decision they have made to require it and could remove it without any effect on the quality of officer (or ncm if chosen to go down that path). Possibly a dual stream where the officers can advance to higher horizons and the NCMs career is just based on being in the pilots seat.
Most pilots civvy side just go to school to be a pilot (which sounds like the equivalent to our pilot training) and advance from there. I see no reason why that couldn’t be the CAFs path.
