Was Navigator streaming a thing?
Gents, indulge me if you will.
As an ex-RAF ground trade (avionics) I’m curious if Navigators were “streamed” in a similar fashion to pilots?
I would have thought (perhaps wrongly) that sitting in the boot of a Tornado, low level at night, would be somewhat more challenging than “trucking around” in a Hercules or sipping coffee and eating DCS on a Nimrod as a routine Nav.
After graduation were all Navs expected to be able to operate any aircraft type, with appropriate conversion courses and OCU etc, or was there a point in training where the decision was made that Bloggs was Fast Jet material and Simpkins was heading to multi-engine.
Idle curiosity is my only motivation in asking, not looking to start a bun fight.