Melmoth
Pilots get streamed FJ/rotary/multi after EFT. It has been that way for as long as I can remember (at least 1999 onwards).
With regards to RPAS, in the early days (mid 2000s) some people were streamed there from Valley. Not because they’d failed but due to service need. Some also changed over from other flying jobs.
Nowadays RPAS is a separate recruitment stream and entrants train as such from the start. They get some live EFT flying and then move onto their RPAS training.
BV