First Post and an AH theme!
As an AH trainer, I agree with just about every letter of Front Seater's recent post on the thread regarding AAC pilot training. The AAC will fail with this aircraft if they carry on the way they are going.
As an FJ colleage said to me on a recent Cranwell course "If you are going to successfully fly and fight an aircraft of this complexity - then it has to be a full time job for the pilot selected".
In my three years in the training programme, I have seen too many young and talented officers restricted by, amongst other things, essay competitions and the requirements of fulfilling their next staff job; and I have also seen too many, equally talented SNCO pilots being dictated to by non- aircrew Sgt Majors "marching them up and down the square", figuratively speaking.
This aircraft, above all, requires aviation professionalism and the AAC, currently, isn't providing it.
Last edited by Sticks; 13th Nov 2005 at 03:50.