Paul Rice, Your comments are from one who is totally out of touch with the present situation at Valley. You imply that maybe you served at some time but then your comments show that you have little understanding of Military Aviation and even less of Military Aviation Training.
Whilst one may agree in principal that a DASOR should not be printed in the public domain one needs to understand the frustration that has led to this.
MFTS has put the RAF Flying Training system into total disarray. The reason is the Senior Officers responsible for signing off on Contracts that are worthless. The only interest that Ascent has is to make a fast buck. Right from the outset the company never resourced enough assets to fulfil the REAL requirement. Not enough QFIs, not enough aircraft, not enough engineers, not enough Ops staff, not enough hours in the day!! How would they even expect 95% serviceability from their aircraft? How could they expect to run a Training Programme on flying for 16 hours a day with no factoring for weather.
An example of a student at present in the system is: Achieved 75 hours on Tutor at UEA in first 2 years at university. Struggled to get much flying in 3rd year. A year to get to Cranwell and complete IOT. A year holding at various units around the RAF doing mostly c**p jobs. A further year to complete EFT and EFT Refresher course. Start at BFT at Valley and now delayed in starting flying for the 3rd time in as many months. Reason, not enough QFIs and not enough serviceable aircraft (for what ever reason).
Maybe those who are prepared to speak out are loyal. They are loyal to their friends, their students and to the Royal Air Force. Keeping quite to cover up Senior Officers screw ups is not "loyalty".
When you read comments such as
As of now, I cannot recommend that path to him. Sad times.
it makes one believe that something has to change before it is too late!