Originally Posted by goatmanni
If thats the case, how come at OASC you can be selected as pilot even if you fail the nav tests? I know someone who is a chopped pilot but didn't have the aptitiude to be reselected as nav? How does that work?
Its all down to numbers dear boy! The requirements for navs is quite small these days with the reduction in the number of 2-seat fast jets, thus if they have all they need from those that are recruited direct to nav training they are not going to bump one of them off a course just to make room for a failed pilot. Additonally what part of training did he fail? Could it have been low-level nav? A GIB needs to have good appitude in nav skills to sit in a fast jet at low level as well as capacity to take in situational awareness, fight an ECM battle and control a formation (yes navs can lead from the rear) thus if your mate was chopped at ME training then the possibility of him re-roling as a nav will be slim considering he was probably assessed during his previous training as having sufficient skills for a multi-crew environment but not for the fast jet role.