alltrimdoubt
I finished shawbury not so very long ago and the army pilots on course with me did as good as anyone else. It is true that RN pilots do a longer jefts and a longer shawbury course but this is because we don't have an intermediate course between EGOS and ACP.
The crabs do a course at shawbs on Griffin, the pongos do another Squirrel course at Wallop and the RN baby pilots just go straight to Lynx, Merlin or Junglie.
I think it's horses for courses really and I'm sure the output standard of pilots starting frontline tours is the same across all three services. (except for Crabs obviously, coz they're crap!
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