Your view may be one of realism NRDK but it also reveals a defensiveness which I hope isn't reflected across civilian SAR. In the past you've suggested that RAF pilots will only be considered when all other options have been exhausted
the CV list is as follows:
Ex RN whatever their non crab inferior skills.
Civvie willing to listen, learn and have demonstrated a life long career drive to aviate (not been handed a golden RAF bus pass @18)
Low time South Africans, Polish, Bulgarian and other EU migrant bus drivers.
Crab SH pilots
Army Pilots
RAF SAR pilots
and your recent post
Tell them get airborne & make the most of the 3 civilian crew they have with its 60 plus years of SAR experience (20+ years is standard at the moment per employee) and get you all to retrain them the RAF way
gives the impression that you feel the need to re-emphasise how much experience there is in civilian SAR at the moment and that your nervousness about RAF input continues.
Some might say this shows that your eventual reaction to the arrival of ex-RAF SAR boys and girls is therefore already in place. If that is true and it's reflected across civilian SAR then as SAR Bloke says, what chance is there that the crewroom is going to be a happy place? Just relax and welcome their input when it comes.
