"Therefore a good competent student attending monthly could possibly complete the syllabus of 60 sorties in less than 60 hours or if attending less than 31 days between trips, up to 80!"
Assuming that the weather is fine, the student can afford the time to travel the distance to the UAS and that it won't affect his degree....
Surely it's time for someone in the RAF to dig in against yet more erosion of values and the forthcoming total implosion of the RAF? How long before all those earnest 'Air Power' and other doctrinal folk begin to realise that all their hot air theorising is worth absolutely nothing without the assets to turn theory into practice.
I heartily agree with Wholi' about all pilot students doing a common-core BFTS syllabus on the Spicano - but UASs should return to the 30:30:20 pattern of flying to a common PIFG/PFB state without ANY streaming assessment!
As for a syllabus which is actually defined to '12:05 solo', well, that just about sums it all up. $odding beancounting which totally ignores the airmanship value of solo consolidation.