The path for everyone who joins the RAAF as a pilot is as follows:BFTS (Tamworth) for 6 months on the CT4. Provided you come through that, 2FTS (Pearce) on the PC9 for about 8 months. Within one month of finishing 'wings' you put in your preferences, but the reality is you will be posted based on ability and how you have performed on the course (every dual sortie is assessed on a 0-5 scale, 5 being highest and 0 fail).The top 6 usually go to Hawks. The rest are posted on preference/ability. Eg. You might have just missed out on hawks, but your second preference was C17, so you might go there (if there is a conversion slot available).On the other hand, most graduates don't want to go fly the King Air at ESL, so that goes last on the preference sheet. Inevitably this means that the bottom graduates will end up flying King Airs (which is a very slippery and demanding aircraft apparently).