Originally Posted by
OvertHawk
My vote for the Red Arrows replacement:
I'd like a Royal Air Force flying training programme that can turn out suitably trained pilots in a relevant time-scale using appropriate aircraft that are reliable, safe to fly and available in sufficient numbers please!
Reminds me of a certain helicopter operator which I visted with the cadets in the late '80s.
They operated Robinson R22s which they treated as 'disposable'. Inside their hangar was a stack of packing cases, each of which contained an R22 ready assembled so that if one of their aircraft got 'broken', they would simply get a fresh one out of a packing case and use it; what they did with the 'old' ones I don't know..