1000hrs between 2 front enders, throw in hot and high, a real threat and a challenging aircraft = a real need for quality training before deployment. Not ticks in boxes
PS. Forget simulators, they will NOT do!!
How do you train with a real threat??????
Simulators are better than ever and will do more than most of the posters on this thread realise; however, experience is what's counts and these days and , unfortunatley it has to be gained on ops.
Remember the RAF's most treasured days in the BoB. 6 Hrs to solo and operational after 20 hrs.
Please accept that we will NEVER be perfectly safe or prepared.
All I would ask is that those in charge know they have done their BEST, and those that do, do their BEST, and that nobody who has not done it, ever has the nerve to criticise.