Dual flying qualification - pilot/navigator

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Originally Posted by BEagle

Of course there was 'Pippa', who was initially a V-bomber pilot and was subsequently unsuccessful at TWU during FJ cross-over training after the Vulcan left service. Rather than go back to being a ME pilot on another type, he elected to become a FJ navigator and was quite successful, if less than popular.

But when he took a Gp Capt position with the Air Cadets, presiding over the death of Air Cadet gliding, he wore his pilot badge rather than his nav brevet...

He was 'initially' an F4 nav and QWI both in ground attack and air defence roles long before becoming a Vulcan copilot. He was entitled to wear the badge appropriate to the role he was executing.