You said
"It would never happen. There are far too many pilots all clawing for far too few jobs in SW Cornwall"
No. there aren't.
"Jobs on 750 NAS are like Rocking horse **** and have been for many years"
No, they are not. The SERCO aircrew manager was begging people at one point.
"It will be very different to the Jetstream. Remember that we are only buying 4 of them.... "
The number of aircraft is irrelevant. What is relevent to the number of pilots required is the number of sorties flown per day.
Well, we may have to agree to disagree but only last week I was at 750 and talking to a large Civilian pilot with curly hair (you know who I mean) who told me that he had a folder full of CV's and he was in the enviable position of being able to cherry pick his team. Bearing in mind that when the Sea King disappears there will be a shed load of Cornish based pilots joining the long queue.
The interesting job Spec is that they will be acting as Aircraft Commander.... a role normally reserved for the Observer.