Jas Hawker is the Principal Officer for NATO Flight Training Europe at the NATO Support and Procurement Agency.
Jas spent almost 30 years in the Royal Air Force and has amassed over 5000 flying hours on the Tornado and Hawk aircraft, which included 3 years as leader of the Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team, the Red Arrows. He is a graduate of the Australian Advanced Command and Staff College and has extensive experience of working in the UK Ministry of Defence, Multi-National Headquarters and delivering Military Flying Training Programmes.
• Successes and challenges of the NFTE after reaching full operational capability
• Leveraging existing structures to maximise training capacity
• Collaboration with industry partners to deliver on NFTE goals
• What are the key missions that pilots must ace in a peer conflict and given lessons from Ukraine? How must air forces prioritise live and synthetic training for lethal advantage?
• What are the future trends in training for 6th generation aircraft, alongside unmanned systems?
• Changing training needs on the fly: How to build-in flexibility and minimize disruption in the transition from a traditional training cycle? How would existing trainingregimes need to evolve and how quickly can this transition take place when needed?
• What might the teaching of “softer” but necessary skills such physical and mental resilience need to look like and how to measure and assess these skills?
• How are air forces increasing retention of new pilots, and what strategies are they using to recruit the next generation of fighter pilots?
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