How about the RN and Army? You do realize that RW training has been tri-service for over two decades now?
errr no - tell me how long the AAC have been sending their rearcrew to DHFS - or the RN.
TOTD - of your quotes about facts and actual experience, only one is valid and that is jayteetos.
All true, but it's also horrendously expensive to buy and operate.
so by that logic, all mil trg should be done on R22/44/66.
It is about designing down to a price rather than up to a standard.
It's expensive to buy a full motion simulator, but if you want to replace actual aircraft flying with synthetic, you need a proper sim.. What have ascent got???? Not a FMS but just FTDs, a poor substitute and even less like the real aircraft to fly than a FMS.
Best left to the Cypriots? 139 trumps Griffin on every count, and we don't have to pay for it!
You haven't seen their SAR have you? Would you let them do a multiple ejection scenario???