Chickenleg - I am not dissing all AAC pilots just highlighting that although the old system gave you what you wanted, the quality was not always as it should have been. I'm not saying that the RAF or the RN produced top quality with every graduation but that overall, at the point when wings were awarded and guys were sent out to front-line, the RAF/RN output was of a better ability as guys were trained to be captain/ac comd and were not then subject to further selection/courses for this level.
Parabellum - the score required on the aptitude tests is lower for AAC.
Tom and Ralph - we knew the career profile for the AAC officers was always going to be a problem - I think a few hoped that the directorate would fight a suitable case with Glasgow for a different structure for AAC in AH but it clearly hasn't happened. The fact remains that the AAC had a good go at making AH an officers club (true blue or LE). The quality of the first AH Sqn was as a result of the high calibre of the blokes in it but they weren't first tourists or Cpl pilots.
Another problem was that many of the original LE apache guys who formed the backbone of the first Sqn have had enough and left; that coupled with slow throughput of the CTT/CTR seems to be leaving you with some serious manning issues.
I don't think any RAF rearcrew would turn their nose up at a pilot's course, AAC or not.