Originally Posted by
pr00ne
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.
One thinks you may have misread what they opined, which I’m so told is just one of several options the enterprise is exploring. If I’ve read the same material as you, then the deletion of Prefect and Phenom would be commensurate with a growth in the Texan fleet in this scenario to deliver what in NATO parlance would be Phase One thru Three? Heresy you say! Where’s the elementary or the multi-engine aeroplane? Guess what, you don’t really need them unless your anchor firmly remains to a system derived from the 1930s.
Air 5428 Phase One PTS has successfully taken ab-initios straight onto PC-21 with ZERO issues at both East Sale and now Pearce with streaming occurring after Phase Two with multi-engine folk going straight to the OCU. Guess what? The kids have coped absolutely fine on C27, C130J, C17, KC30, P8, and E7.