Surely, with some of these individuals not being able to get through the ever-tougher training system due to lack of re-flys, etc, only a few will trickle onto the sqns.
As all SO2 and many SO3 pilots at my unit are leaving or have left at their option points over the last 2 years to fly civie, what will happen (apart from closing/ amalgamating sqns v more time OOA per sqn) to the sqns now?
Maybe less people are applying after reading how the good life is on here? Glad that we are doing our bit to aid recruitment!
Maybe they are just starting to initiate the plan to have UAVs in service sooner, all linked up to Microsoft Flight Simulator ("2004" version, not "X" as we can't afford the pc spec to run the latest version on- we'd have trouble running version 5.1 on most of them)...
SMT