Why is the Navy so short of pilots? I know this has been talked about before on this thread and the good old
Sea Jet thread but what is the reason?
Loss of the air defence role?
Move from Yeovilton to Cott/Witt?
Being under RAF control and used as an element of Strike instead of Fleet?
Lack of recruitment over the last x years?
The fall out from back to back CVS deployments to the Adriatic in the 90s?
The system has gone wrong somewhere.........
tucumseh
If Abbey Wood needed a new catering manager, they wouldn't employ someone who knew nothing about cooking, so why should Project Management (their
raison d'etre) be different?
Incidentally, today (3rd December) is the anniversary of the first carrier landing by a jet aircraft in 1945. Lt Cdr (later Captain) Eric Brown landed a Sea Vampire aboard HMS
Ocean in the English Channel. So much of the development of naval aviation was by British Pilots and Engineers (both Service and Civillian), only for mindless and short sighted politicians to discard their work like a discarded tissue.