One can try and dress this up in a myriad of ways and attach as many HFs you like but this all boils down to one basic, fundamental issue: the inexplicable efforts to maintain too many crews on an aircraft type that is down to it's last few hours on it's last couple of airframes. Crews bounce between currencies and this is the end result - I'm just glad it was something as trivial as a wheels up landing...
The RAF continue to quote the existence of a fleet of 14 K aircraft and the world in general continues to believe them. Similar accounting would render the RAF a fleet of about 30 Phantom Air Defence Aircraft - I'll start you with the 2 FGR2s at Akrotiri and North Luffenham. Not a dig, just a statement of fact. I guess if enough people say it's true then it becomes true - the Emperor's New Air Force perhaps.....?
Stories abound of the mythical hangar at Marshalls crammed full of delivery-hours Ks just getting their final polish before being delivered back to Lyneham or of the imminent plan to purchase a fleet of a 164 C130H AMPs that will be lifed to 2112. Ain't going to happen and in the meantime the soon to be fatigued-to-death J fleet struggles to get enough hangar space, engineers, Marshalls space or money to keep it thrashing along at the pace it's having to maintain. This will all culminate in the last K dying in 2012 just as the J fleet all goes into major life extension work. Hilarious. I could give you a list as long as my arm of ways to ameliorate it but to be honest it's more fun selling front row tickets to the impending 2012 train wreck (pun intended).
BEags - there is nothing "specialist" about asymmetric training as it should be done on the K. And before you respond I'll refer you back to my first paragraph. If you aren't getting the hours then just strapping in becomes "specialist".