Originally Posted by
Wrathmonk
pulling the Harriers out will allow people to see the utility of carrier borne aviation
How?
The more time Harrier spends on land based ops the more potential there is (for less informed individuals) to assume carrier aviation is no longer required.
Exactly.
It is on land based ops right now. Come April it reverts to naval ops and does what exactly?
A very powerful argument could be made for a capability holiday.
Tourist
How about each Valley course being judged on the overall merits of the students - if the best available for Harrier (or JCA) happen to be all dark blue or all light blue or a mix of differing amounts so what! If a dark blue student is not making the grade for Harrier/JCA but is good enough to graduate onto another (RAF) platform then let him.
Brilliant. The perfect solution and counter to my argument that a very small RN Harrier pool is wasteful of resources whereas a larger RAF pool would enable those that are not suited to Harrier to be posted to outher more suitable types.