Originally Posted by
muppetofthenorth
The RAAF doesn't fly -35Bs, so how useful is that actually?
They are training them to fly, they are being trained on PC-21 and hawks. They will then probably go to the US for actual F-35 training
They could also train them on A's at 2nd OCU, then they get B specific training in the UK or US. But not sure RAAF would want flight hours being put on our F-35's with out be compensated. There is already at least 1 USAF and 1 RAAF flying B models in RAF so theres obviously training between the models