Bringing BCAR's back won't really help, what we are lacking is the outflow we used to get from the RAF etc, it is ok training LAE's from scratch, but they lack the life and engineering experiences a lot of the ex service personnel coming into civilian aviation provided as they moved to doing their licences, this has almost dried up with the shrinkage in the military, so the percentage has now gone the other way from a higher amount of experienced personnel going for their licences to a greater number of straight from training engineers.
Well that's how I see it.