Here we go again:
i-news - RAF admits 'urgent' need to solve shortage of trained pilots
Defence Secretary, Ben Wallace, has revealed that at one point last year that the UK had more F35 Lightning II stealth fighter jets than it had pilots to fly them and that “the pilot pipeline was not where I wanted it to be”.
By November, the situation had improved with 27 F35s and 33 pilots, but that included Australian and US pilots over on exchange and was “not a staggering amount”, Mr Wallace admitted to MPs.
Nothing said about losing pilots to China then?
How about tempting them back? I'm sure they have their price!
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