All the talk is about buying more helicopters, great. The accute shortages of machines are there for all to see, if we do buy more how are the aircrew going to be trained to fill the seats to crew the machines?
The training system is max'd out training the numbers we need for the current fleet and coping with the steady stream of fokkered crews walking into the civil market.
The fleet of AH is training as many as it possibly can and we have fewer pilots at front line now, than we did two years ago!
I dare say that other aircraft types are in a similar position.