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Training course

All candidates for air service in the Air Force, including ground crews, were first assigned to an Air Replacement Division (FEA). After passing through the FEA, the recruits considered suitable for flight training were assigned to a Candidate Flight Company for two months. General aviation subjects were taught here. A basic training of six to twelve months took place here, whereby the instruction at radio sets and map reading were the only aviation aspects. In the later course of the war this phase was shortened to two or three months.
Candidates for an officer's career continued their training at an air war school. All other candidates were assigned to a pilot school A/B (FFS A/B) and received a 100 to 150-hour beginner training course on A2 and B1/B2 aircraft. Towards the end of the war, the number of flying hours was reduced to only 40. The first five hours were with a flight instructor, after which about 25 hours in solo flight followed for practicing take-off and landings and circling. The aircraft material used for this was usually robust Bücker and clamp models. Since these were almost always two-seater, at the end of the training the Luftwaffe pilot's license A2 was almost always required. The A1 licence could only be obtained in single-seater aircraft.
After the successful completion of the training there were different options for the further training, depending on the evaluation of the flight instructors and the ideas of the flight students. Future fighter pilots were seconded to fighter pilot schools, dive bomber pilots went to Stuka preschools, pilots for bomber and reconnaissance aircraft were further trained at C schools.

source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/B-Schule (only in german … sorry)