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I think 800 hours is out to lunch for 2 years flying fighters. What source did you get that from?

You can probably expect to fly 250-300 hours a year flying fighters. If you're overseas for a long time and upgrades are slow, you may fly longer sorties, but the actual flying will be pretty lame. If you're back in the states and upgrades are happening quicker, you'll probably fly more often with shorter sortie durations and better "blue air" training. But overall I think 250-300 a year is a fair assessment. Other fighter guys chime in with what you think.

I think you'll only get that many hours with a desert tour. If it's all CT "back home," you'll probably average 10, maybe 12 sorties a month. At 1.0-1.5 a sortie, we're looking at 120-180 or so. It's pretty rare to hit 200 in a year with all CT flying these days. Alot depends on fighter, base, manning, IP status and all that jazz, but I just don't see many Guard or AD dudes getting 250+ these days.