Originally Posted by
Doctor Cruces
The shortage of pilots could be helped greatly by taking their training back "in house" and not wasting money on poorly performing money making machines such are the current trainers.
Which by its very means will increase pilot availability by having service instructor's over civilian, I could never understand how farming it all out was cheaper. I could understand it with the odd specialised trades that may have the odd task to do every now and then, such as aerial erectors, chippies etc, but the core tasks, no.
I do wonder, have they looked at the Civilian system of bonding pilots? Ie, you have to give back so many years of service to cover the training costs, a bond becoming payable if you leave early.