Aircraft
F-35 Training Gap Looms
Lecture explores F35 training – frontline combat readiness in the 21st Century
F-35 pilots must process and collate large volumes of data and information while operating “in a non-permissive environment,” which is military-speak for “under heavy Gs and lots of stress.”
F-35 pilots must process and collate large volumes of data and information while operating “in a non-permissive environment,” which is military-speak for “under heavy Gs and lots of stress.”

“We have the largest training gap in tactical aviation history in front of us,” said Lieutenant Colonel Kevin O’Rourke, 1 Group F-35B Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Training, U.S. Marine Corp (USMC). “We don’t have a lot of the things we need to train the force commander’s pilots to go to war—yet: simulators don’t have it; and the jet doesn’t have it. We have good things coming, but they are a few years down the road.”


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