RAAF F/A-18 pilot flies F-22 at JBER

Royal Australian Air Force Flight Lt. Mark Biele is one year into his three-year exchange with the 90th Fighter Squadron at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska as a F-22 pilot.


U.S. Air Force photo/David Bedard

Although he flew the F/A-18 back home, Beile said the transition to the F-22 was not that difficult. “From there, I was very easily able to go into the system and the TX [transition] course – which is a course offered for previous hours in a fast-jet type at Tyndall [Air Force Base], Fla. It was just like training I had done before, just in the world’s greatest aircraft.”

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