Originally Posted by
vecvechookattack
Why can't he be an engineer? surely the reason that the guy has been selected to drive the squadron is because he can "command
Command is certainly a potential although QRs mandate against it but he could clearly not lead.
More seductively you might have asked could a navigator command a Typhoon sqn. Yes he could and, in the same way as a pilot defers to an engineer's knowledge so too could a navigator defer to his pilot leader.
But he could not lead his sqn from the front.