Originally Posted by MSOCS
Originally Posted by Double Hush
RAFAT have had to lower the entry standard...
Please elaborate.
It used to be the case that Reds candidates had to have completed a front-line tour and have at least 1500 hours fast-jet. The former requirement had obviously been dropped when they started taking ex-creamies mid-way through their first front-line tours, and the latter rather inevitably died a death as a result of a whole generation of pilots being caught up in an hours drought towards the end of the 2000s (the high proportion of aircraft deployed and changes to depth maintenance being the culprits). In any case, that hours bar was going to have to be lowered at some point - 1500 hours will soon be a good career total given the increasing use of simulation (50:50 mix on F-35, for example).