Originally Posted by
GalleyTeapot
What about Linguists?
What about linguists? I think you will find there is no mention of linguists in Ch 7 of the AP.
Originally Posted by
GalleyTeapot
Also not all WSO are ex N brevet, what about the AEO who wears AE bur in now called WSO too!
Indeed, I thought that was the point I made above.
Edited to add, all 'navigators' were taught to navigate. True some were streamed fast-jet and did no astro and others were streamed ME and did little FJ work but they were all qualified as navigators and in the fullness of time many would swap from one role to another. True, fewer would swap ME to FJ although lots of Shack rear crew made that transition.
Paperwork wise, instead of being gd/n or nav they must now be WSO(N) which is twice the number of characters and 5 extra keystrokes. Very inefficient.