Originally Posted by
Treble one
As a matter of interest, and without going into the specifics regarding this individual, what does the RAF do in a case like this, with a pilot who has made a pretty serious mistake/error of judgement, but is not dismissed from the service?
A period of retraining? Sim/CFS/QFI checkrides, and then back in the cockpit?
Posted on a ground tour?
Flying rubber dogs doo out of Hong Kong?
After all, there's been a lot of public money spent getting an individual to a squadron. Someone (many people), somewhere obviously thought that such an individual has what it takes to operate on the front line.
Well, if other public services are to be used as a template, given that an old schoolfriend of mine was found guilty at a Navy Courts Martial of being a significant contributory factor into a Perisher student driving a nuclear submarine into the seabed causing £5M worth of damage - he ended up driving a desk for 4-5 years at MOD before leaving the service as a Commodore, last tour of duty being Commander British Forces Gibraltar, and the other famous case of a certain Metropolitan Police Gold Commander's loss of control resulting in a Brazilian electrician being turned into swiss cheese by the men in black and later ending up as Commissioner, I think we can safely say this errant pilot's path to CAS is assured.
Especially if he's done the Common Purpose course.
