Originally Posted by
hargreaves99
NPAS dropped the IR requirement in 2019 as they could not attract any applicants. They still struggle to recruit. They strongly prefer ex-mil people, most civvy people that join leave after a year or so.
I strongly disagree. There are many "Civvy" pilots in NPAS at the moment and most of those have been there for years.
A few have not made it through training as well as some Ex Mil pilots.
The biggest hurdle for a lot of Non Military and on-shore applicants is the Night hours requirement. Some High hour HEMS pilots have very little night hours.
That's starting to change now with NVG and Multi crew ops but there are still a lot of suitable pilots without the necessary night hours to get in the door.