So perhaps we should go for providing just air experience at UASs - you wouldn't need QFIs for that, just suitably qualified pilots. Or perhaps just a few QFIs to teach just 'up to first solo' as they do for the navigators? But make the main route in to the RAF for pilots through a dedicated RAFC 3 year 'spotty schoolkid to officer with degree and wings' course flying the T67 and Tucano?
University graduate pilots to do a shortened IOT and EFTS course (following UAS air experience on the Teutor), then on to wings standard at the RAFC alongside their younger colleagues?
Then FJ to Valley, ME to the USA on the Jayhawk and RW to purple chopper school?
[ 20 October 2001: Message edited by: BEagle ]