Unfortunately MOD 'Centre'
don't like VIPTAX. Senior RN Officers can catch the train despite studies saying opposite (and senior RAF doing the opposite)! Never mind all the other things that Heron Flt do. He who holds the purse strings controls the fate of Heron Flight.
I know a lot of lobbying went on to keep the Jetstreams but the Option was taken despite the most senior FAA people kicking up a hell of a fuss. Mind you, which colour blue heads up the show(for another two years)?
Wrists being slapped all round for not knocking it on the head sooner.
Everyone will miss it when it goes and another facet of Naval Aviation gets removed by those people who know the cost of everything and the value of nothing.
