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You're right, not a difficult concept (and with tongue firmly in cheek)....
No need if you put a pilot in the back, plus if they swap between front and rear we double our crewing options whilst getting them up to speed for future platforms
In that case shouldn't we get rid of WSO(LM) [or whatever they call it these days] on the C130 / C17 / RW fleets and replace them with pilots so that we increase our crewing options even more.....? Granted a bit more expensive but means we have many more future CAS / AOCs in the system to choose from!
There is no place for the WSO in the future of aviation so lets start forward thinking now bin the lot of them and move pilots into the few flying posts that Nav's fill at the mo
If all future manned FJ aircraft are likely to be single seat, and we're buying reduced numbers, then doesn't it make sense to get rid of the excess (Harrier
) pilots now and keep the navs doing the job they were trained for otherwise when the GR4 fleet finally folds we will still have an excess of pilots with no single seat cockpits to go to.
PS - Excellent thread Epsilon! You could have tied it in with the fitness test failures and/or who 'draws' more allowances should get the push and you would have got a full house! And you forgot to mention that anyone drawing CEA should also be shown the door
. All money saving ideas ....