I read somewhere in the last few days that AAVN is actively recruiting Brit Army Apache pilots, and we've read here of at least one US Army helo pilot joining AAVN.
I appreciate the need for a leavening of experienced crews among the Tiger pilots' ranks, (how in the world could any of the AAVN pilots have gained any experience in state of the art equipment over the last ten years?), but it must really rankle the poor buggers awaiting a conversion course or simply waiting to log some continuation training to see pilots being brought in from overseas.
I think Bushranger has a point: three air arms in a military as small (and shrinking) as Australia's isn't good economics. Can't see anything being done about it without a lot of people with empires to protect being dragged screaming and very unwilling to the table, even to discuss it.