Running In. You are not quite correct. FBH do NOT train the RAF on the use of NVG. They form part of the team who train new crews in the RAF to use NVG - a 60/40 split with the larger portion being military instructors.
Vec,
My dear chap, what is your issue. You talk about NVG not being a requirement. It is if we put it in the Statement of Requirement. Your information on military doing SAR during airfiled opening hours might be a double bluff! By the time this comes in we will only have 3 bases left and they will all be 24hr opening. Seriously, no person in there right mind is going to sign a .................... damn!
Ex Leckie. There have been a lot of lessons learned from the contract you mention - for both sides of the PARTNERSHIP.
Folks, thats what we are talking about here a PARTNERSHIP if we cna afford it. IF not, it may be an all civilian op, what it is almost certainly not going to be is the current system with new ac.
The devil is in the detail of the contract. None of us, I suspect, have seen that IF it is even writen yet!