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Old 11th Dec 2014, 16:02
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So if you hail from north of Lincolnshire, where is there the RAF can now offer you for a chance to work?

A handful of QFIs at Linton, plus ops and ATC... all due to move to Valley in a few years. A tiny number of pilots on 100 Sqn and JFACTSU at Leeming, plus some FTRS UAS/AEF types... a few SAR guys at Boulmer about to be civilianised, leaving just the ABMs... more reservist pilots at Leuchars and Glasgow on UASs, and then a decent-sized base at Lossiemouth.

So with Linton for the chop in or around 2017/18, and the Hawk T1 dying at the same time (and quite possibly 100 Sqn with it), that means aircraft jobs will stop as far north as Scampton and not restart until Lossiemouth.

Linton's a base close to my heart, and it strikes me that all the basing review stuff I've ever read pays a lot of attention to circuit congestion, operating areas, access to the right training, ac parking and storage etc. But not a single but asks where people might want to work.
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