You forget that the Army has no runways.
Oddly enough, Army aircraft don't require an officer to pilot them, like the USAF, USN, and USMC.
No aircraft requires an officer to pilot them. The service itself does.
If you are inferring that Warrant Officers are not officers, then you are wrong. A Warrant Officer is commissioned at CW2. They can reenlist soldiers, they can take command, etc, etc. And yes, I was a Warrant Officer and I did reenlist several soldiers throughout my career.
Most of your line pilots in the Army, are Warrant Officers. They are specialists in their field. They do not go off to all the weird places the Commissioned folks go. Aviation Warrant Officers spend their careers in the cockpit, versus behind a desk.
