There still isn't a syllabus for anyone to look at and very few instructors know if they will have a job yet post contract change.
The mil/civ balance has been been constantly assured yet the mil don't look like they have enough QHIs to fill their slots - and since so few are A2s anyway, all the experience will still be in the civ cohort.
The belief is that the contract was significantly underbid so what will be the plan B if it falls over commercially?????
Slow motion train-crash anyone?
There is a syllabus to look at, but - shock horror - it hasn't been sent to everyone who is carping from (some distance beyond) the sidelines.
The relative paucity of mil A2s is nothing new - no reason to raise that as a big concern. The uncertainty for the civ aircrew (and engineers) is very unfortunate, but also inevitable as Ascent wait for HMG to change the goalposts yet again (or not - the Lady hasn't yet decided if she's for turning Pumas or Wildcats into razor blades).
Plan B - one trusts that Ascent's money men weren't borrowed from Soteria...no doubt they have got the financial side nicely sewn up...