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"The thing denies your ability to put a weapons system on it, even when I can see it through the canopy," said RAAF Squadron Leader Stephen Chappell, F-15 exchange pilot in the 65th AS. "It's the most frustrated I've ever been."

В принципе, летая дома например на Ф-18, он мог пройти переподготовку в США на Ф-15.