The Royal Australian Air Force's 12 C-130J-30S are operated by No.37 Squadron from RAAF Base Richmond. The co-located No.285 Squadron, responsible for training, borrows aircraft as required.

Raising crews’ skill levels in different disciplines, from air drops and static line parachuting to NVGs, is one of the key aspects of No.285 Squadron's work.

The training remediation programme also involves changes to loadmaster and technical training regimes.

A training mission using night vision goggles in No.285 Squadron's C-130J Full-Flight Mission Simulator, which in 2015 was used in Coalition Virtual Flag.

Squadron Leader Sam Wright shows Dominic Perrottet MP the C-130J simulator off-board instructor/operator station. Instructors have migrated 32 student training events from the simulator to the classroom.