Originally Posted by
Foghorn Leghorn
You are correct, there are no contract red air fast jet companies that train pilots from day 1. However, the number of pilots required for contract red air is probably not as many as you or I may think.
Equally, there are quite a number of pilots that have recently left or about to leave that are more than capable of filling these seats that the Service is losing anyway. This, coupled with the amount of money and assets thrown at providing Red Air I am sure it makes more economical sense to have contract Red Air.
it does to an extent. And whilst Cobham jets are pretty solid at some aspects of red air they are only going so fast and so high. They and 100Sqn should make up numbers not be primary red.