What does a U.S. fighter pilot have to do to qualify as an ace?

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Five CONFIRMED kills of enemy aircraft.

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lot of training.

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To become an ace, a pilot have to shoot down 5 enemy aircraft.

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He/she must get 5 enemy kills or enemy planes destroyed to be an ace as far as I know.

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Five confirmed (either by video of the crew ejecting, or "catastrophic destruction" ) enemy aircraft in air-to-air engagements.
Kills on the ground, while tracked in your records, don't count.
Also, it's not just pilots, WSO/RIOs also are credited with kills, and can become "aces".
In fact, the highest scoring AF "fighter pilot" in Vietnam, wasn't a pilot at all. Capt Chuck Bellevue a WSO had 6 kills.

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Just 5 confirmed kills.

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5 confirmed kills ( in a dogfight ) the aircraft must be comparable to the one you are flying.

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nobody gets to be an ace for shooting down 5 bombers.

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dogfighting is a dead art and rarely if ever happens anymore.

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if you mean A.C.E. (aerobatic competency evaluator) for airshow pilots go to faa.gov or iac.org and it will list the req's for that.

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