Discrimination
Restricting entry to the following types Typhoon, Tornado, Sentry, Nimrod, C-130 does not solve the discrimination issue.
How does such a restriction begin to deal with the clear discrimination built into the service pilot only scheme ? How does it deal with the discrimination againsta homosexual pilot aged over 35 years ? or a woman aged over 44 years ? or a pilot from a non British or non Commenwealth non Irish Republic origin ?
The answer is it of course it does not deal with this discrimination.
What would be okay is to have a recruitment scheme open to all pilots with say 1500 hours total time on turbo prop or jet aircraft of any type with the right to live and work in the UK.
Then high quality service personnel could be judged and assesed side by side high quality civilian pilots competing openly for the available jobs based on experiance, capability personality fit and all the other legal factors.