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Old 21st Apr 2010, 01:32
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Captain Sand Dune
 
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Well, where do we start?
1. RAF or RAAF? One is in the UK, the other in Australia
2. “Ineffective”, “important”, “guaranteed”. Spell check is wonderful thing.
3. Yes, the ADF does run the most expensive flying school in the country. Quality costs.
4. Yes, compared to civilian schools the ADF does have a higher failure rate. The ADF require graduates who have demonstrated the potential to learn at a required rate. This is so because once they progress to the expensive and complex operational types, the ADF does not want to (nor can it afford to) waste time going back over basic techniques. I would imagine the tax paying public would take a very dim view of sub-standard pilots flying increasingly complicated and expensive airframes.
5. Yes, some good people do get suspended from ADF pilot training. The fact that they were suspended from ADF pilot training is not a statement on their character, it just means that at the time they weren’t suited to the military way of doing things. Some of them go on to become very good operators in civil aviation. Good on them!
6. The fact that the failure rates on ADF pilots course would not be tolerated in the civil arena is irrelevant. The ADF is not training civil pilots.
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