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Rotate too late
No they're not flying a lot are they?
I wonder why........
Mainly down to shortage of experienced/skilled maintainers at forward and a very inefficient (and expensive to the taxpayer) servicing regime IMO.
There have been times when there were 10 aircraft having depth servicing in the hangar where I work and no doubt 4 or 5 aircraft undergoing minor servicing on the regiments. Can you imagine Ryanair or BA having 30% of their fleet on the ground at one time for servicing?
Going back to the lack of manpower, its amazing how little time the Army engineers actually spend servicing aircraft as opposed to cleaning their rifles/sport/kit inspections/parades/etc. The RAF were not great in this respect but the Army seem much worse.