I was doing servicing one day, when a senior was telling me
about how much fighter pilots were paid compared to the chopper
pilots.
In the conversation, he said that in the USAF, they glorify the
chopper pilots more than the fighter pilots. Reason being that
chopper pilots are more 'into the action', a higher chance of
getting bullets nailed into them, smashed by RPGs or getting shot
by fighter jets.
Whereas the fighter pilots are further away, and most of the time
the only thing that can hit them would be the anti-air artillery,
another fighter pilot or their own stupid mistakes.
Locally the thinking is not so. Fighter pilots are glorified,
chopper and transport pilots ain't the top of the heap.
What say you?
