5, eh - haven't those who know anything about such things, always said as much, Roly?
First question to the MFTS lot should be "Where do you think you will get your instructional staff from?"
Second question should then be "And when the first tranche, should you ever get them, decide to retire - what then?"
With the QFI-factory of the proper UAS world having been shut down, the number of RAF QFIs is dwindling. The number of QFIs who wish to take retirement and then work at places like Oxford Aviation Academy is nowadays roughly zero - they prefer to go to the airlines themselves, it seems, rather than train youngsters to go to the airlines. The pay and conditions are somewhat better too.
I wonder whether the MFTS people have realised how expensive it would be to send a pilot (assuming he/she was good enough) to CFS.......
Even in the single piston world, military QFIs do rather more than just 'teach' barely-legal joyrides passed off as 'trial lessons'. As for sufficient BFTS and AFTS QFIs, well, what do you think?
Schadenfreude. Not very nice, but in this case I will smugly say "We told your airships so, but as usual you wouldn't listen!".
Although they will have retired with a K and a door-opening job for a military contractor by then - and some other poor sod will have to pick up the pieces.