Originally Posted by
Buster15
Is there any details of the breakdown (no pun intended) of these rediculously high cost per flying hour.
you can probably work out any hourly cost you want. Low annual hours across a small number of airframes supported by a full military background support of an airfield with ATC, admin block and staff, security, maintenance (civil work), high number of technicians per airframe, married quarters, officers’ mess, NCO’s mess, junior ranks’ mess etc, Padre, medical center , maybe a primary school..., through in actual gross employee costs in a 50+% tax environment. Through life costs, development costs for a bespoke airframe. It soon rises above oil and fuel and pilot salary!