Before 1942, German pilots needed to go through 6 months of training and 2 months of aviation study before they could get the opportunity to enter the A/B elementary flight training school and fly light aircraft for training.0

Only when their flight time exceeded hundreds of hours, the pilots could get their certificate and wing badge.0

After that, they still needed to enter the C-level flight school to receive training on various types of aircraft before they could actually fly twin-engine fighter planes or reconnaissance planes on the front line.0

However, as the war situation became tense and fuel, aircraft and other materials were in short supply, the situation quickly changed. After listening to Goring's report, the infamous toothbrush mustache guy simply ordered the disbandment of the C-level flight school, and then the light aircraft in the B-level schools were also gradually replaced by gliders one after another.4

It was said that by the end of the war, the average German pilot had only 160 hours of training before going...0