This really is a ludicrous PFI. Have the poiticians forgotten that you can't make a profit out of Defence? It involves keeping some assets sitting around doing nothing in peace time and training personnel continuously so they are available when you need them.
Also, we can't have mil pilots flying civil aircraft on revenue tasks because -
Oh yes. We'd have to give the pilots an ATPL as part of the OCU. Then we wouldn't have any pilots at all
