Originally Posted by
Homelover
although I am just a teensy bit disappointed that the big one hasn’t managed to shoehorn his “self-regulation” Mantra into the debate somehow.
As MG advises, patience dear boy, patience! In the meantime I'm glad to see that you are up for debate, Homelover, as will be the OP of course. So can we try that for a change?
If, and it's still a big if I guess, the RAF/MOD is interested in filling its pilot gaps albeit on a temporary basis, surely it will want to do so from as large a pool of recently left pilots as possible? That way it gets the best bang for its bucks (which are scarce enough as we all know). If this scheme is limited to those in one company alone then surely that would not be the case? If BA, the BACC, BALPA even, are not interested in casting the net wider then surely the RAF should be? Unless of course vested interests are at stake, as so often has sadly been the case in this Forum's threads....