No 79 Squadrons' Introductory Fighter Course from Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Base Pearce deployed a detachment to the Busselton Margaret River Airport on Monday.
The squadron were completing formation flight training operations with pilots taking to the sky three times each while they were in Busselton on March 29 and 30.
Royal Australian Air Force fighter course student John Lewin graduated last year and is currently learning how to fly fighter jets for RAAF.
While in Busselton, Mr Lewin was learning how to fly in close formation with his peers in a Hawk 127 aircraft.
"Monday morning was my first formation flight for the purpose of doing a formation landing and take off," he said.
"It was awesome.
"For me, prior to entering the Air Force I had a commercial pilot licence, going through training is totally new in terms of the aircraft performance and they way they want us to fly.
"But formation was the first real military type of flying, you do not get that type of experience in the civilian world where you fly so close to your best mate on course.
"You do challenging things like flying instrumental approaches or flying pairs for landings and take offs."
Mr Lewin said it was daunting when he started the course because it was like standing at the bottom of a mountain of all of these skills he was being trained towards.
"It is like taking bite sized chunks out of the elephant, basically you consume one little skill in less amount of time and before you know it you are doing this kind of stuff," he said.
"It is challenging and rewarding to be able to execute something like that."
Mr Lewin is in the fighter pilot stream with the Air Force and could get to fly the newest Air Force jet when he finishes his course such as the F35, or the Super Hornet or the Growler.
"It has certainly been my dream since I was a little kid [to fly fighter jets] once you have the bug it is very infectious," he said.
"It finds it way in to all aspects of life."
Mr Lewin has been in the Air Force for three years completing six months of officer training, a six month basic pilot course, another unit at the RAAF Base East Sale called 1FTS.
"They teach you to fly aircraft and how to handle it, then we move over to WA to RAAF Base Pearce and do a unit 2FTS, second flight training school.
"We put those basic skills to use to refine the single pilot captaincy which involves decision making, handling an aircraft on your own and being able to do more advanced sequences and subjects of flight."
Mr Lewin said flying a fighter jet single handed for the first time "was certainly an experience."
"When you are in the moment you are so focused on the job that you don't really think about it at the time until you get out in the air, and you think, I am actually out here by myself and I have to get this back home and back on the ground," he said.