5 Forward 6 Back , many of us warned that this would happen, but were told that as mere Sqn Ldrs, we knew nothing about 'the big picture'....
As ye sow, so shall ye reap!
Part of the benefit of the old UAS scheme was that it generated and sustained a significant cadre of QFIs and gave novice QFIs an opportunity to learn their craft with students of widely varying levels of aptitude. But with the dumbing down of the UASs in 2005, thanks to the infamous Marston report (which was to UASs what Beeching was to the railways..), there are very few RAF QFIs needed to maintain the Kraft durch Freude activity at UASs these days.....
