When you only put on contract 23x light aircraft, 10x turbo-prop jet lead ins, 5x multi-engine trainers and 28x Hawks then what do you expect? They are wringing every last bit of capacity out of those poor frames and so if an SDSR delivers more shiney toys as planned then the only choice is to go to market or leave your students to wait even longer waiting for someone to build more aircraft. Nothing new really, we impressed aircraft and outsourced at the start of WW1 and WW2 to get our aircrew numbers up in quick order...I just hope we aren’t looking at the start of WW3!
