The candidates who are able to meet the standards of general service training, flying and academics are commissioned as Pilot Officers in the GD (P) Branch of the PAP. The graduation parade, a never-forgotten experience for the Aviation Cadets, marks the end of training at the Academy. They are now ready to join the Fighter Conversion Units where they further develop their flying skills on more demanding and advanced jet aircraft. After successfully completing this conversion, the budding pilots are taken a step further, through Operations Conversion Unit, where they learn to master the front-line combat aircraft of the PAF. In these units the pilots are subjected to most critical and formative stage of training Here, for the first time, they are taught skills without which they cannot survive, an
eagle-eyed ability to search the sky for the enemy, “dog fights” with simulated “enemy” aircraft, and the skill to shoot accurately.
After achieving the desired standards of proficiency in the fighter and operational conversion phases, the officers are now qualified to join the front-line combat squadrons of the Air Force as young operational pilots. It is in these squadrons that they truly grow into air warriors, a closely knit combat team, getting airborne in their highly lethal, supersonic machines to practices in perfect team work and aggressive attack, in air combat maneuvering, weapon delivery. tactical air support to land forces and many other C3pes of wartime flying. In these squadrons they continue to strive day-and-night towards higher levels of professional skill, so that they may remain ready to follow in the glorious foot steps of those who have established great fighting traditions in the PAF before them.