Originally Posted by
NutLoose
Why does he need to be a flier to run a station, British Rail does not require theirs to drive the trains and BTW the two photographed have a wing each, he does after all have an o/c Ops and o/c Eng under him, surely the ability to delegate hasn’t been lost in the RAF that much. The previous head of the CAA managed without any flying experience.
He doesn’t - isn’t Brize now run by an Engineer? Didn’t the previous CAS also pointedly ask which other organisations chose their CEO on the basis of their hand-eye coordination when they were 18? Times are a changing. Some things for the better, others not necessarily so - have you seen how the Admin Branch has basically been turned into a bunch of call centre operators?!
But if we are now shifting towards genuinely putting the right people in to senior jobs for the right reasons other than a safe pair of hands, surely that’s a good thing?