Interestingly I was at a meeting last year when the machinery was put into place to contract out all Military Flying Training including OCU Conversion to Type. They even promoted a hairy old Sqn Ldr QFI to Wg Co just to oversee the programme. Could be that this is the fruits of his labours. It would make sense given the timings and the fact that the OCU at a secret airbase in Wiltshire has folded. I doubt very much if the UAS world is involved in this tranch because of the recent upheaval with the new aircraft and switch to civvy rules flying must have created a fairly longish term contract to see it all in. The plans 7 years ago crossing some fairly high level mahogany were for a huge reduction in the uniformed manning levels for the RAF in any case, probably down by 20,000 on current levels. Again all this ties in. Might be plenty of instructing jobs for those guys fortunate enough to have the ability to achieve the standards required by the RAF instructional fraternity, good look to them. <img src="cool.gif" border="0">