Just out of interest I assume that Army pilots end up flying in RAF RN etc squadrons. If this is the case then would these pilots be Non Commissioned? if this is indeed the case then it puts holes in all the arguments that the FAA and RAF have made to justify Aircrew being commissioned.
The RAF and FAA have officers as pilots because in the good old days of the Cold War when lobbing nukes via aircraft was a very real prospect it was deemed that only an officer could be trusted with such a task.