Can anyone explain the requirement for FTRS QFIs?
If there was an urgent need to fill the front line by calling back UAS QFIs (as there was in 1990 pre-GW1), it might make sense to back-fill with reservists, should any be available...
But since the lunatic Marston report
and the subsequent wholescale dumbing-down of the UAS scheme to the level of some glorified air cadet scheme, the reverse is true. You will note that the scouser UAS advert refers to 'the' QFI - as in the
only one - required to work a 45-50 hour week, plus all the associated niff-naff and triv., including CCS anf RAFFT. No doubt the 'range of secondary duties' includes sticking a broom up ones ar$e and sweeping the crewroom floor?
They really couldn't have made the advert sound less appealing if they'd tried.
