Centaurus,
The way around that is use crews with a reservre comission.ExRAAF QFIs,FCIs etc abound in Qantas.Now to add to their impressive RAAF credentials are thousands of sectors of experience(wont use the word hours as there was an earlier aversion to such).
This country has over 25yrs experience operating 737 aircraft.We cant crew our operational aircraft and there seems to be an Aero Club mentality within the RAAF regarding 737 introduction.
I feel QFs expertise is worth purhasing too.
VB is an unknown quantity-no safety committes,CRM courses and all the rest(Maybe wrong but that is anecdotal).
Cant Standyah
Your lo-level blah blah is not pertinent regarding the operation of civilian aircraft within the RAAF.
There have been very painful but hopefully learnt lessons where the RAAF has crashed civilian aircraft through inexperience and ignorance.707 crash(QF had a wealth of operational and theoretical expertise available),hard landings and pod strikes.Will leave the Nomad.Macho comments like your last,though admirable in the operation of fast jets,gives understanding as to how a very safe airliner like the Electra was destroyed in the Cocos Isl.
VIPing,a waste of military resources when there is a lot more available civilian expertise.
And for God`s sake,don`t risk one of those taxpayers Wedgetails trying to barrel roll it.Leave it to experts like Boeings Tex Johnston.