Originally Posted by
The Old Fat One
On a waaaayyyy more serious note, the important fact I take away from this instance, is that only the pilots are required for pilots manders.
This will bring a leap of joy from the few that will fly in the P8 harboring ever dwindling memories of minimum crew (1 Nav, 3 Siggies, plus the dear 'ol FE) "runway - pounding" mind numbing borefests they suffered in the Mighty Hunter.
No doubt some RAF skygod will invent a reason to change that joyful policy once they get their grubby maws on the new beast.
I still suffer nightmares to this day...
Flaps to twenty, flight director to heading, powers good, call me rotate...oh the pain the pain
Hopefully they’ll realise that this sort of training can be better accomplished in a Level D flight simulator instead of incurring uneccessary cycles on the aircraft.