What an utter waste of time and money. Why aren't we throwing hours at the guys who are going to need it...Surely the most recently converted pilots would be a more sensible use of the assets. Would be interesting to see how many hours and sims were spent doing this. Especially as my unit has just been told to look at cutting trg hours from on high. And we've got aircraft on ops.
Smart political move by the Typhoon boys though...Keeps it in CAS's eye when it's show-boating around the UK airshow circuit for the next few years.
Still, CAS is a top bloke but he's been poorly advised on this.