Point well and truely taken.
Forgive me, sitting on my ass “outside”, I’m obviously not aware of the constraints being put upon you all. Seems nothing changes – they still expect everyone to make do with bu%&er all.
However, even with all that bo££ocks, I still can’t see how letting one guy, the most important guy in the RAF at the moment, go solo in the damn thing, is going to change much. If he flys it in a 2 seater, to get to the point where he fully appreciates what it's like to fly/operate, it's only going to be about 2 hours less than if he flies it solo. So he goes solo, is that a big deal? 2 hours in the big scheme of things? I think not. Now if you want him to get "operational", then that's another matter. BTW, is the Stn Cdr allowed to fly? I mean, he really doesn't need to fly it either does he?! Or OC Ops? Where do you draw the line?
I’m not advocating every 1, 2 or 3* pitching up for “a look-see”. God, that used to pi$$ me off when I was on the F3 OCU at CGY when every man and his dog wanted to fly the sucker (not sure why{!}). However, even then sometimes when the relevant * saw what it could and couldn't do, it helped - a bit. Even now I still think that if C4 hadn't been allowed to fly it as Stn Cdr, we might have got the damn thing working a hell of a lot sooner (did it ever work?!).
I’m sure even you can make an exception!
Best wishes.
Last edited by BusterHot; 16th December 2006 at 00:17.