anyone think there's any chance of moving work OUT of DARA?
Apart from fixed wing is that? DARA lost that with these new contracts.
I know how the servicings have been "reduced."
Any work not in the schedule is not counted as time spent servicing, under the old system the time for servicing was from in the door to delivery back to squadron. Now arising faults and ADFs/Lims are not counted as part of the servicing.
Also the level of servicing has been cut! (See exriggers post!) despite the clever maths and stats I find it sobering to think that on jets past their inital design life are now being serviced less than then when they were new!
As for money saving, it's not as if there was any choice when the entire platform's budget was cut by 45% is it.
To the best of my knowledge, not one jet has passed out serviceable on time from CMU from it's inception. I hope if I'm wrong someone can tell me which ones did.