"I can only hope that when the time comes, Finland will list more to the Canadian Department of National Defence than on the Norwegian" fighter project "...
The Canadians have Decided to calculate the potential usage of their F-35: s 2:42 years, but 12 of those years are labeled "development and delivery time" Thus without any routine flights.
I will calculate this most benevolent and judge thatthis add six years of additional flight time for the fleet.
So 36 years of active duty.
They plan to fly those 65 F-35A: s 15 hour a month and that amounts to a total of 421,200 hours.
They have also estimated that the total cost of these 42 years will be 44.82 billion CAD.
If you consider that they actually will be used only for 36 years, that comes down to 106,363 CAD / hour or € 81,357 / hour or 702 350 SEK / hour. (Approx: 600.000 NOK / hour)
In any currency the amount is staggering ...
When it's time to retire the fleet in 2052, the planes have Utilized only some 70% of their expected life flight, but that these hourly costs in the
air, it is not hard to understand that F-35 pilots will mostly do their flying on the ground ...
Source:
http://www.forces.gc.ca/site/reports...dex-eng.asp # 3i "