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Old 3rd Feb 2016, 07:52
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Ken Scott
 
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Good lord who thought up the name 'prefect'? 'Tutor' sort of made sense but what did a prefect ever teach? (Cue all sorts of fagging jokes - 'go & warm the toilet seat for me boy' etc). Who would wish to fill their logbook with 'Prefect T1'?

I assume that they were attracted by the close spelling to 'perfect'. Surely that can't have been reason enough to give it a daft name?

It also seems to be a very small number of ac to train 230 pilots a year even assuming excellent availability. Quite where they're going to find all the instructors, civil & military, is also a big question. I hope they intend offering market rate salaries & not 'pension offset' ones especially if they hope to fill the Valley slots.
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