Organizational Structure Of The Turkish Air Force Command

Turkish Air Force is composed of the following six categories:

• Officers,
• Noncommissioned Officers,
• Civil Staff,
• Specialized Sergeants,
• Contracted soldier,
• Rank and File.

Personnel sources of Turkish Air Force are as follows:

For Officers; Işıklar Military High School, Air Force Academy, universities, promoted noncommissioned officers.

For Noncommissioned Officers; Air Technical Schools Commandership, universities and colleges that civil high school, technical/vocational high school graduates can apply.

For Civil Staff; Citizens.

For Specialized Sergeants; Citizens completing their military services and qualified in the exams.

For Rank and File: Citizens with military service obligation.

Officers graduating from Air Force Academy with 4-year undergraduate education are sent to 2nd Main Jet Base Command and those who are not entitled to be sent due to any reason (health, skills etc.) are sent to Air Technical School Command for specialization trainings.

Stages of flight training system according to technological development of the aircraft present in the inventory of Air Forces Command and specialization of pilots:

• The First Stage: Encouraging Flight Training with T-41 for selecting and encouraging students,
• The Second Stage, Initial Flight Training with SF–260D aircraft,
• The Third Stage, Basic Flight Training with T-37 aircraft,
• The Fourth Stage, Specialization Flight Training with T-38 aircraft for battling jet pilot candidates, with CN-235 aircraft for transportation pilot candidates and with AS-532 helicopter for helicopter pilot candidates.
• At the Fifth Stage, pilots completing their flight trainings successfully are taken into Training for Adaptation and Combat Readiness at the fleets they are assigned.
• At the last stage, the pilots continue their Combat Readiness Training at their fleets.

Air Technical Schools Command in Izmir provides specialization, technical, academic and laboratory training for officers, noncommissioned officers, civil and specialized sergeant staff. Basic military and specialization trainings lasting 5 to 10 weeks are provided for ranks and files in Kütahya Soldier Training Brigade Command.