While that may have been true, I never heard the term "banked pilots" ever used
while I was on EAD (through 1967). They did pay rated officers their flying pay
even after they had been assigned to non-flying duties. For a while, they did
require 4 hours of flying per month, but later waived that requirement in order
to save on aircraft maintenance and operations costs. However, I don't remember
anybody who had been taken off flying duties ever getting assigned back into
them.

George Z.

"W. D. Allen Sr." wrote in message
et...
The USAF banked rated pilots even back in the late 1950s.
One studying medieval history at Princeton lived two doors
down from me in New Jersey.

WDA

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"mah" wrote in message
...
During the early 90's there were more pilots than flight
slots and some
were "banked" for future needs and assigned to nonflying
duties. When
did they all get returned to flight duty?

I was looking for information but couldn't get a good
result from a web
search.

Thanks

MAH