Farfrompuken - the T67M260 is a nice little light aeroplane apart from the woeful roll rate. And that's about it.
We do need people with good pairs of hands to fly things like the '10, TriStar, 130J and C-17 as, apart from the C-17, they require old-fashioned stick-and-rudder skills. We do need people with acceptable formation skills as it's ridiculous to train people up at several thousands of pounds an hour rather than a few hundred on the Tucano.
The '10 conversion is now longer because all courses are done concurrently. It's no longer than the old '10 course, plus the VC10C > K course, plus the AAR Role conversion course added together - which is what it now is.
Best solution - use UASs purely for air experience, send all pilots to do a 60 hr EFTS then send all the ME streamed pilots to do all their training in the US on the Texan II and Jayhawk.
PS - Forgot to add. We stepped out of the 'captain-must-be-a-sqn-ldr' days in 1983!
[ 20 October 2001: Message edited by: BEagle ]