https://www.military.com/daily-news/202 ... death.htmlThe Air Force Updated F-16 Live-Fire Training Rules Following 2017 Strafing Death
2020/11/04
News of the change was first reported by Air Force Magazine, which further detailed that freshman pilots must conduct their first nighttime training sortie alongside an instructor in a two-seater F-16D model - not solo in their own fighter.
If a D-model is not available, no live weapons are allowed onboard, the magazine reported.
Further improvements have been made since 2017, Lockhart said, to include how students employ the targeting pod - a tracking device used for target detection and identification - in conjunction with the use of night-vision goggles.