Originally Posted by
BEagle
Quite so. A few weeks ago I drove past Barskton Heath and Cranwell mid-week in the middle of the day during excellent weather. No aircraft flying at either station and nothing on the tarmac either...
And on top of this there is an Ascent proposal to dispose of the Prefect and Phenom fleets entirely and have prospective fast jet pilots transition from the new primary trainer (Tutor replacement) directly to the Texan T1 and then the Hawk T2 replacement, and for multi-engine pilots to transition from the primary trainer direct to OCU. I do hope that this proposal is given the disregard that it is due, or the tiny MFTS fleet will be even more ridiculously small.