Becoming a Top Gun fighter pilot is not an easy task. If you're smart enough, strong enough, and have good enough eyes, then you just might be selected to be begin the training to become a fighter pilot. That's right; your journey is just beginning.
Lots of testing to find someone who will make it into the Air Force, fighter aircrews have more advanced testing, like fitness tests that gauge whether a candidates body will be able to withstand the insane amount of G-forces a fighter pilot endures. Once you get through the first hurdle, the training and testing just keeps coming. This former Royal Australian Air Force Fighter Combat Instructor pilot empowers young listeners to just get started, and then keep going, keep working through every day as it comes and you will be rewarded with one of the most amazing careers you could ever imagine. He even throws in a firefighting ambition, a crash and a rescue to keep you entertained.
Today, this fighter pilot is helping his homeland of Australia develop new technology to fight wild-land fires, 2019 was one of the most devastating fire seasons in history and this pilot is using his expertise with aircraft technology to help prepare the country for future fire seasons and help reduce the loss of life and property.
