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The first two 'creamies' start T1 ground school at Valley later this month then onto the simulator in early March. A second pair of 'ab initios' will follow in the autumn. Only 4 students per year will be trained on the T1 stream initially and they will all go to the Typhoon force upon completion of flight training with 100 Sqn. I would have thought this would be a popular route with the students as they won't have to compete with pilots of partner nations for flying hours or suffer T2 availability issues. They will get to train on an operational Squadron.
The current system cannot generate enough T2s due to various issues. For example there were only 4 available one day this week.
In that case, why do we, did we, ever need the T2 if the Typhoon OCU can take people from T1 training?