RAAFsuperhornet
New Member
This is my first post, so I apologize if this has been asked previously. Im currently in year 10, and soon to be year 11 at school. As we all know, the RAAF will be acquiring around 100 F-35s around 2012-2017 and this brings me to my question. Assuming I am accepted to join the defence force, and everything works out, what are the chances of myself being trained to fly the F-35. I will finish high school in 2011, and the entire officer training, and flight training last for 1.5-2 years or longer. This will bring it to 2013. As the Super Hornets will be in service by then, would they train me to fly these aircraft, or the F-35? I know this is a difficult question, so Im hoping there is a current or ex RAAF pilot here. Another question would be, with only 24 Super Hornets, would all the other classic hornet pilots be retrained to fly the F-35s, or continue to fly the classic hornetS. I'd imagine they wouldn't retrain a fully capable hornet pilot to another aircraft platform. I hope this isnt a too long post, Im really interested to see how this will work.