Originally Posted by
The...Bird
Op Shader in 6 years time?
I've also heard the complete opposite to a lot of this, 250 hours if you're lucky and that's flying very infrequently, with a lot of time in the sim rather than live flying. Same applies to F35 but even less hours.
Thats 500hrs over a tour not annually, which seems about right. I averaged 250 annually on GR4 which included a lot of SHADER time at circa 75hrs/month.
It may not be SHADER in six years time but fairly naive to assume Op ‘x’ won’t pop up in its place.