Originally Posted by
alfred_the_great
If this scheme gets recently left pilots ahead of any poor bugger that is waiting to get in a cockpit, then the RAF should rightly be given a kicking.
The “local acting temporary rejoiners” should go to the back of the queue*, not leap-frog it to the front.
*which may be very short...
The problem is that some of them have been waiting for as much as 10 years according to this thread :-
UK MFTS on or off the rails?
The result is a shortage of pilots going through the OCUs of certain fleets. As to who exactly should be given the kicking you call for, I'll leave that to others better informed than I, but given past precedence I wouldn't hold your breath, ATG! There isn't a queue of fully qualified pilots ready to join the squadrons, that's the problem. This scheme could ameliorate that problem until there is a queue again. That will take some time...