Easy Street,
I could not agree more. In my experience the T1 and T2 pilots coming to Typhoon were equally good and it's all about building captaincy at AFT and exposing them to jeopardy through live fly hours (and solos). I don't think anyone would argue that the T1 is the best answer to current woes but to write it off off as irrelevant is IMO wrong. I'd take a T1 grad with a bucket load of live hours over someone with few live fly hours and a load of HOTAS training in the sim any day!