Hi Lachlan,
Good luck with your application. It can be a long process at times but stay focused! Make sure you get started ASAP on your application process as age for RAAF can become an issue as they are screening for fast jet pilots as a priority at this stage. It would also be highly beneficial to score as high as possible in your specialist skills assessment obviously. Keep an open mind about navy and army flying as well as the assessment process is for general ADF pilot entry. I changed my preferences at the beginning of my OSB in Tamworth so don't write those off as options. A lot of the slightly older guys seem to get army SSO, I think one guy in my FSP was 32 and he got into army.
@Pilot Jimmy,
I went in with about 70 hours but hadn't logged one for about 2 years. They have a way of working out what your residual experience is based on the time since you last flew. I ended up on the intermediate course so I'd say you would be the same. I had one less flight that Basic and one more that advanced and was doing things a couple lessons ahead of the basic guys. Definitely focus on attitude flying and really forget about the instruments in terms of angle of bank, straight and level etc and treat things as if you are starting from 0 hours again to some extent. Don't try and use what you previously have learnt because they have their own way of instructing. It's kind of like monkey see monkey where the instructor will show you and then get you to follow it through with them then you try it.
I didn't practice anything else in regards to prep for the intermediate flying, you have a lot of study time and you will be given the flight briefs there so don't stress about flight prep, focus on what you can study for now which is the OSB as you will find you won't have much time to work on that.
Above all else work as a team and have fun, it's a great experience.