Originally Posted by
pr00ne
The B Word,
All fine and dandy, but how does your spin of positivity deal with the fact that IOT intake of pilots has been decreased from 120 to 20 a year to "cope with MFTS flow through?"
it wasn’t 120 it was more than that (not including RPAS Pilots) and for the next 12-24 months intakes have been halved - not the 20 you quote. The reason for slowing the intake is because there are quite a few holding at various points in the pipeline. Think of the pipeline as a sausage machine producing various types of sausages - if you keep putting in the sausage meat and the various sausage finishing facilities are all not delivering 90% or more then the sausage meat hopper starts to build up. That is what has happened. As we all know the various parts of the new MFTS pipeline has had challenges in starting on time and delvering the planned capacity (that is thankfully now changing), but the effect has meant the hoppers are full for now so reducing to about 50% is the right thing to do - we would rightly be highly critical if the RAF didn’t.
As for the T1 I believe they are going to use the slots for creamies, skimmies and GR4 WSOs on crossovers to pilot. If that is correct, then again it is the right thing to do.
Sorry to sound a bit ‘preachy’ but there is a lot of fake news on this thread which is unhelpful.