Leon Jabachjabicz:
We tried using AEOs and AEOps in the boot of Tornados various
Oh really? When, and to what end? I can't imagine why the Nav Mafia would even contemplate such a thing. I know many AEOps who have gone on to be successful Tornado pilots and navs, on commissioning and after training of course. Don't get too precious about RADAR manipulation and EW, they have been core skills of NCA for many years, long before the first Tornado nav learnt to switch on his computerized RHWR. As for low level nav skills, you'd better ask all the rotary wing NCA how they get on with that.
Navigators - protecting seats whilst eyeing ups everybody else's since 1942.