Sky Sports - the last lot to finish Modular Initial Officer Training (MIOT, the new IOT), will be starting ground school in the summer and EFT in early autumn. The 2 year holds have gone a long time ago. However, the Integrated Review’s announcement of the removal of Herc, Puma and Sentry is bound to create some turbulence in the pipeline again. But seeing as no one seems to know the exact dates of these platforms going out of service, or when the new ones replacing them start, then it is next to impossible to predict right now. That is what happens when you have defence reviews every 5 years and pipelines of similar lengths - by the time you turn the tap off for people coming in, and you wait to notice the change, it is probably too late to turn it back on again (or vice-versa!).