Becoming a navy pilot?

Two things :  U S Navy fliers are called aviators - it's an important thing.

Every aviator must fly a certain number of hours a month to stay qualified.

The higher your rank, the less you fly.  By the time you are an O4, your flight time is minimal.  By O6, it’s nonexistent.  Of course making O6 takes about twenty years....

As an O1-2, you are a student aviator and how much flight time you get depends on a butt ton of factors.  This week, there were at least 6 choppers at Spencer Field learning how to land without breaking everything.  Three months ago, there were none.  Two years ago, they were cutting aviation candidates left right and center as they had way too many and not enough instructors or equipment.  ( everyone starts off on choppers, then other factors go into what your ultimate platform will be).  They are currently behind due to Covid shut downs, so anyone already in the pipeline is gonna get hours before any newbies.  Assuming they are even taking any from OCS.

A pointy ended fast mover( attack aircraft) does a lot of practice flights/ carrier quals.  A Hawkeye will see less flight time( but better duty stations and overall schedule les).  

Most flight slots are given to USNA grads and ROTC grads.  

In the Navy, how much you fly depends on what point you're at in your career. Your first 1.5 to 2 years is spent in flight training, after which you have a 3 year operational tour. Subsequent tours may or may not involve flying, and even if you're in a flying tour, you generally fly less the further you progress in rank. When you are in a flying status, you generally fly a few flights a week, more when deployed, less or sometimes none at all when congress fails to pass a budget on time. The rest (and often most) of your time is spent preparing for your flights, studying to complete warfare qualifications, and doing a "ground job" and collateral duties. The Navy's attitude is that you're an officer first and an aviator second, so they can employ you however they see fit, and it's your problem if this makes it harder for you to not suck at flying.

pilots are lucky to fly 6 hours per week, so most of your time is spent planning missions and reviewing past missions.