You may want to look at the military thread about the goverment scrapping the SHAR and leaving the fleet without fighter cover untill the JSF turns up as this may get in the way of your ambition to fly fighters.. .. .As some one who has never been in the RAF or the Navy i cant comment about the training apart from saying that it will be to a very high standard in both camps.. .. .However i do work with a lot of pilots who are ex-forces and a SMALL minority of ex-RAF seem to think that the world owes them a living and there two ways to fly ,the RAF way and the wrong way !and will tell you this endlessly.. .. .I have yet to meet this attitude in a ex-navy pilot ,this seems to show that the pilots in the navy are much more content with working conditions.