Prestwick to move……pray tell !
With Crabs’ foresight and analysis shouldn’t he be in MOD Policy department?
1. MOD saving money by investing in a civilian contract for SAR-H….. isn’t that like like not buying software codes for new airframes, thus rendering them useless??????
2. SAR Flights relatively low cost….apart from the £46,000 taxi costs for spares to get to Prestwick a few years back!!!! I agree with Tigwas, how can you state what it costs when they can’t decide themselves. Not mention “Extra invisible costs” like military pensions, through life training costs, BOQs and MQs add to that Boarding School Allowances etc the list could go on.
3. A civilian pension fund would cost a company £150,000 (approx) over 20 years. I’d like to see ANYONE fund £15K per year (index linked) plus a lump sum of 75K out of that pension fund. But of course MIL SAR must be cheaper !
4. Why will the service be any less in the future when we are reducing 24hr cover to 12 hr on a daily basis at all bases due to lack of personnel, (Lossie, Boulmer and Leconfield, plus reduced cover at Prestwick).
5. Lastly, how can the Air Force be unhappy about moving goal posts? Didn’t they move Australia by 200Nm in the mid 1960s to justify F-111 bombers from their bases around the world as an alternative to a new fixed wing aircraft carrier (CV-01 project)?
Pas