Originally Posted by
COYB
I have had an interest in this venerable aircraft, ever seeing one at an airshow as a teenager, in particular the K2 tanker variant during the latter part of the types career.
After listening to a recent podcast on the Black buck mission, I was taken to thinking about the route a pilot would take to become a HP Victor Co-Pilot during the 1980's?
Would you have gone via the jetstream at Finningley or by the Hawk fast jet route at Valley?
How long would the conversion course have taken at 232 OCU / Victor Training Unit and hour many hours the student would have flown.
Depends upon when you got chopped from the Fast Jet Stream!
All pilots were recruited with the intention of being Fast Jet.
You could get chopped, sorry streamed, at many stages, from EFT through BFTS, AFTS, TWU or even on a Fast Jet OCU.
Depending on the level of performance you would be reroled Multi-Engine, Rotary or, as a sort of half way house, you could be chopped onto Canberra’s and maybe given a second chance at Fast Jet after a tour.