I'd heard that all the Mk5s were being sold to help fund the retirement packages for all the K navigators.......
A fair swap methinks.
As for the low level thing i believe this is true too. It has been decided that a twin IN/GPS, moving map, HUD, mapping radar etc etc platform is wasted at low level and cannot hope to compete against an old urine stained man, a crumpled map and a 230kt piece of string.
Consequently all the
Js are being sold off and the crews retrained. Unfortunately the crews cannot return to the K as this would require a level of evolutionary regression not yet mastered by the world's genetic scientists. That and the fact that the shock would probably kill them too. Have you been on one of those things lately..........? Yikes.
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