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Old 17th May 2005, 00:40
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Well what I heard was that it is 30 hours per week and it is all solo. If you can’t manage 30 hours per week you will be chopped. There will be no QFIs on the outfit because you are only going to be allowed to fly solo and no duals will be permitted. After you’ve done 30 hours per week for 6 weeks you have to start to teach the air cadets to fly because all of the AEFs will be staffed by ground branch personnel who can only take photographs of aircraft and are not allowed to fly them. UAS bosses will be Royal Navy personnel so that they can lead adventure training courses at sea and they will have an SAS 2i/c to run the escape and evasion phase of the UAS course, to train students in the art of avoiding being caught doing anything productive between all the solo flights. All EFT will be done at Middle Wallop on gliders to save money on fuel. The instructors at Middle Wallop will be a mix of PPLs gaining hours and Rock Apes who have had 3 gash trips in the back seat of a Jaguar when they were the station Rock. The next stage after EFT will be done in Sarajevo to start to get people used to being shot at at an early stage in their training. Once you have received at least 2 bullets in the aircraft while airborne during training, you will automatically become Chief of the Air Staff and be trained to remove as much operational capability from the RAF as is humanly possible in your 3 year tenure. If you succeed in reducing the capability by at least 15% in your time in office you will qualify to be put in the hat with the leaders of the other 2 (3) services to be selected as the Secretary of State for Defence.

Well --- this makes about as much sense as the rest of the bollox guesswork in this thread so it could equally be true!!!
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