While still preserving safety of flight, the policy adjustment prevents initial applicants who are below 64 inches or above 77 inches in height from requiring an accessions waiver. Air Force’s on-going effort to encourage a more diverse pool of applicants to pursue careers in aviation, the minimum height requirement for officer applicants who wish to fly has been removed as of May 13, 2020. But as others have said, there are very tall and very short people who get in and relatively 'average' people that don't.As part of the U.S. AFCO will not be able to advise you.Īll that can be said here is that if the closer you are to 'average' height and build, the less likely it is that you will have a problem. Accordingly, I am only a borderline pass on sitting height for fast jets.Īnthro measurements need specialist equipment and a trained operator. But I am long in the back and have short legs. It is almost impossible to find someone who is in the second or third quantiles for all of the 10 main anthropetric measurements.įor example, I'm a pretty 'average' 5 foot 11 inches.
However, a basic tenet of anthropometry is that there is no such thing as an average person. Most cockpits are designed to be accessible for the 2nd to the 98th percentiles of the population. Functional reach checks you will be able to reach all of the flight deck controls while strapped in. Buttock to knee length makes sure you won't leave your kneecaps behind if you eject. Sitting height ensures you aren't going to bang your head on the canopy or not be able to see over the coming. These are specific to the functional requirements of operating an aircraft. However, there are a whole range of anthropometric requirements for potential aircrew. That's because height as most people measure it (standing height) is pretty meaningless for considering whether you fit in a given cockpit. There is no "height" restriction for employment as a pilot. All I wanted to do was provide the correct information in broad terms.ĪFCO advise (and potentially could have the answer there and then), medic knows. I know fast jet pilots both shorter and taller than me (I'm 5ft 11), however it's out of an individuals hands who would understandably want to question these things. Why do you think the AFCO are there in the first place? 5ft 6 isn't really short, so in this case they really ought to bite the bullet.īut this is x100 better than listening to the bull**it that gets fed in these forums. I don't know how you can interpret that anymore.Īt best the AFCO might be able to supply a set of tolerances for each measurement, so the OP won't get an answer there and then. The first, the only person who can answer the question, which is the medic. Your post, IMHO, was fairly ambiguous and the advice not necessarily to the OP's best advantage.Īmbiguous? I stated 2 things. Why find out then when you've come all that way to then potentially have your dream shattered?Ī more important thing I've mentioned, speaking to AFCO which will most certainly avoid one getting caught up in the security blanket of the internet.
Considering the medical is the 3rd stage of the selection process, it's a lot to undergo when potentially you can be given an answer there and then. However, I understand why an individual would ask these questions. Hence why I said it was down to the person who is qualified to make the decision (who will have the correct measuring equipment), which you have kindly repeated.
Even my most recent measurements taken on my 5 year currency trip to RAFCAM (RAF Centre of Av Medicine) differed my more than just a few mm. I'm sure people can quote figures if you really like, but as with anything, measuring equipment will be calibrated differently etc so you cannot ever be sure (as an example, try (OP) weighing yourself on several sets of scales. You do the selection process and either pass it or find out your are unsuitable from the suitably qualified people who will conduct your assessments, be they medical or otherwise. You APPLY - don't get caught up in the security blanket of the internet. There's a simpler answer that used to be more fashionable.
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