Originally Posted by
FMTAfterburn
Woah, whats going on, the Border force contract has minimum requirements of experience and IRT renewals, no way a cadet would qualify to fly on these sorties unless Cobham extort the Government to make whole sale changes to their contractual obligations, or they commit to having a training pilot on every cadet flight, in which case there is no advantage. But hey it wouldn't be the first time they got away with conning the government.
The contractual requirements have been flexible in the past (e.g., residency, citizenship, IRT renewals), I don't see why they wouldn't accomodate something like this.