Foreign Exchange Flying Tours

[Toro]

I have bro's from the F-15E community currently flying exchanges with:

Brits: One Typhoon / One Harrier

You forgot one. Bullet is finishing up a tour at RAF Valley flying Hawks.

[Champ Kind]

Revival:

Anyone have an updated listing of exchange pilot opportunities?

Previously mentioned links/sites are outdated.

Thanks!

[epsilon]

Revival:

Anyone have an updated listing of exchange pilot opportunities?

Previously mentioned links/sites are outdated.

Thanks!

I'm on my way to a viper exchange in Europe. Fighter porch gets the list...but I was also able to look on AMS several months out to see what types are out there...doesn't mean that it will show up on the VML however.

I know of the following F-16 PEP (exchange jobs) in Europe: Holland/Denmark/Italy/Portugal/Norway....I might have missed a couple. Of course there are other jobs that are open to other airframes (i.e. UK harrier/French Mirage/German Tornado, etc)

[Guest fin]

I'm on my way to a viper exchange in Europe. Fighter porch gets the list...but I was also able to look on AMS several months out to see what types are out there...doesn't mean that it will show up on the VML however.

I know of the following F-16 PEP (exchange jobs) in Europe: Holland/Denmark/Italy/Portugal/Norway....I might have missed a couple. Of course there are other jobs that are open to other airframes (i.e. UK harrier/French Mirage/German Tornado, etc)

The Brits grounded their Harriers for good earlier this year. Budget cuts.

[Dupe]

One PEP trend I've noticed: Every exchange RAF guy over here in the states purchases a two ton or greater pick-up truck.

[Homestar]

AMS lists 11M positions at RAAF Amberley (A330) and Ottawa City (A330). I've been trying to figure out what the 11M exchange is in Zaragoza, Spain.

[matmacwc]

I'm on my way to a viper exchange in Europe. Fighter porch gets the list...but I was also able to look on AMS several months out to see what types are out there...doesn't mean that it will show up on the VML however.

I know of the following F-16 PEP (exchange jobs) in Europe: Holland/Denmark/Italy/Portugal/Norway....I might have missed a couple. Of course there are other jobs that are open to other airframes (i.e. UK harrier/French Mirage/German Tornado, etc)

Say location, my buddy is doing the Frog exchange at the moment.

[Phil Ken Sebben]

Zaragoza, Spain is a Herk exchange.

[Homestar]

Zaragoza, Spain is a Herk exchange.

Thanks!

[Swizzle]

Thanks!

That was filled one year ago by a friend of mine.

...TDY to nearest USAF H.A.W.C. for PT tests...go figure.

[ziploc158]

Does anyone know how to go about getting an exchange with the Canadians flying herks? Or knows anyone that has done it?

[Boxhead]

There was an American at the 17 Sq in Winnipeg back in 2001 when I toured that place. Now who they were, where they were form/how to get it, I have no idea, but I do know that there was an American USAF member, flying C-130s in Canada.

[ThreeHoler]

Exchange assignments show up in AMS.

[Learjetter]

If you're worried about promotion versus flying skill, or trying to make them conform to the USAF vol 3/Dash 1, don't bother to apply - you'll only fcuk it up for the aviators that want to fly.

Their jets, their rules. Our jets, our rules. Simple.

[Thor]

Another revival... I'm still a cadet so I don't have .mil access.

Is there an updated list of exchange possibilities?  Thanks!

[matmacwc]

Huh?

[Thor]

17 minutes ago, matmacwc said:

Huh?

There had been some replies with updated lists of exchange locations and opportunities posted several years ago on this thread and I was just wondering if any had been more recently updated

[Guest]

I'm still a cadet

Probably not the time for you to be worrying about such things, but I'll indulge. For C-17s we have had exchanges with the Canadians, Aussies and UK. There are NATO C-17s in Hungary. I recall there being a German C-17 pilot when I was at Chucktown, though they don't have any C-17s (maybe there will be an opportunity to fly the A400M with them?). There have also been opportunities to go TDY to train the UAE C-17 pilots in Abu Dhabi and I believe the Kuwaitis as well. This may taper off once they build up their experience.


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[Thor]

2 minutes ago, ihtfp06 said:

Probably not the time for you to be worrying about such things

That's fair haha, I start UPT this summer and was just trying to see what kind of opportunities are currently available.  Thanks!

[matmacwc]

By my math you have 3-4 years to worry about that and the landscape will change completely. So.....huh?

[the g-man]

By my math you have 3-4 years to worry about that and the landscape will change completely. So.....huh?

Longer than that. No way you're gonna get a foreign exchange straight out of UPT


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[Clark Griswold]

Anyone ever do the CC-150 Polaris exchange tour with Canada?

[JarheadBoom]

18 hours ago, ihtfp06 said:

There have also been opportunities to go TDY to train the UAE C-17 pilots in Abu Dhabi and I believe the Kuwaitis as well. This may taper off once they build up their experience.

 

 

There's at least one, possibly two, USAF pilots working the Kuwait C-17 program right now.

[polcat]

15 hours ago, Clark Griswold said:

Anyone ever do the CC-150 Polaris exchange tour with Canada?

There's someone doing this gig right now. If you want, I can try to dig up their contact info. Unfortunately I'm on exchange but flying a desk instead of a herk.

[BashiChuni]

17 hours ago, matmacwc said:

By my math you have 3-4 years to worry about that and the landscape will change completely. So.....huh?

guys he's looking for the UPT exchange tour! where can he go be a student in europe flying/drinking/chasing women?!