I can't speak for what EMUAS is like as I'm from the premier UAS
Never knew you flew from RAF Flatmarsh, Flik, how comes I've never seen you there?
On a more serious note, as I understand it the new system will provide for
some flying for *all* members (none of this Pilot/Ground Branch divide), but is likely to be without syllabus. I can see it being a set amount, to be flown during Uni holidays, since there's little continuity anyway, let alone if you're restricted to 10hrs or so spread throughout a year. In which case, have The Powers That Be thought how this will mean the world and his wife, dog and three kids all trying to fly during eight weeks in the summer -- UAS summer flying, AEF summer camps and the new DE flights desperately scrambling to get their studes through in good weather as currently happens -- with the subsequent ramp in activity? Or how badly a few weeks of bad weather could put back *all* the flying activity that summer (cf. the Tutor grounding last summer)?