Still big questions suround the issues of currency and REAL standard of work-up between ships and their flights. Ask anyone in the RN Lynx community how many hours they did in the last year - and also how many of those were embarked
Im sorry fella but this incident has nothing to do with currency. I know Nottingham flight well and also know that they were fully worked up and were current, qualified and capable.
Agreed, flying hours were reduced last year and so the Lync community took it upon themselves to ration their hours and only fly good quality training. All erroneous tasks were politely refused and there was a lot of emphasis taken on quality flying training. Simulators were utilised as best as they could and during the later half of last year the restriction on flying hours was removed and so ALL crews had ample opportunity to continue with quality training.
The lasck of flying hours had nothing to do with this incident nor the previous incidents when a Lynx ran out of fuel. What could be more worrying is that (although Im not exactly sure), the only RN aircraft to run out of fuel on a regular basis (once a year) is the Lynx. Perhaps the MLA is wrong? Perhaps we train our people incorrectly...who knows?