I would have thought there are still hundreds of teenagers out there who spend their youth going to air shows, playing flight simulators and dreaming of flying a fast jet down the Welsh valleys (I'm not the only sad one am I?). For people like that 10 hours of flying in an aerobatic aircraft and low-level nav down Derwent Water (?) will still be very attractive.
That's me.
the point is that those folk who would have joined the UAS because they were going to be taught to fly will now think twice about joining... And I'm pretty sure that the vaguely stated "....fuller range of personal development and leadership training" won't be of much interest to potential recruits either.
Unfortunately that's also me.
I'm off to Uni on Saturday and have been looking forward to going for a UAS place for as logn as I can remember.
Of course i'll still go for it, but I am still truely gutted it's not the UAS I was hoping to join.