One Less Job for Navs - ISTAR mission commanders to be replaced by WSOPs?
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One Less Job for Navs - ISTAR mission commanders to be replaced by WSOPs?
Is it true that all ISTAR Navs are to be replaced by WSOPs? There is a rumour going around that this is going to happen sooner rather than later to allow Navs/WSOs to go to fleets with a shortfall.
Might be happening on the Sentinel to begin with. Makes sense when you think about it as the WSOPs are the experts.
Might be happening on the Sentinel to begin with. Makes sense when you think about it as the WSOPs are the experts.
If I recall correctly on Dominie trg sorties, the Nav used to work the RADAR, radios, nav kit and also the navigation. The pilot would fly the aircraft and execute the final command function. The AEOp, read WSOp(AE) in new money, would collect/issue the in flight choccy bars, spot Oscar class submarines in Cambridge High Street, ask the Nav for a position and then go into flurry of activity as a "Jerry Morse-tapper" at 20 words per minute. So just remind me, who has the better trained skill set?
Both Nav and AEOp stude would get the opportunity to work as Co-pilot to the skipper in the front seats, to get the idea what flying was all about!
iRaven
PS I agree that the original question is "hoop"...
Both Nav and AEOp stude would get the opportunity to work as Co-pilot to the skipper in the front seats, to get the idea what flying was all about!
iRaven
PS I agree that the original question is "hoop"...
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The AEOps didn't get to practice the flight in the classroom and then the Sim before the flight though!
As for better trained skill set, it took a lot of time and effort to get anything useful out of the new Navs even after the OCU, but the new NCA were productive staight away as they could use the galley
As for better trained skill set, it took a lot of time and effort to get anything useful out of the new Navs even after the OCU, but the new NCA were productive staight away as they could use the galley
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I'm certainly not a journalist, just someone who heard a rumour and was looking to see if anyone could expand or dispel it.
I too thought it was 'utter hoop' when I first heard it, but there is a lot of sense in it when it was explained. And if this releases some qualified Navs to go to sqns who are desperately short of Navs, it seems they may be able to kill two birds with one stone.
I too thought it was 'utter hoop' when I first heard it, but there is a lot of sense in it when it was explained. And if this releases some qualified Navs to go to sqns who are desperately short of Navs, it seems they may be able to kill two birds with one stone.
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'twas originally an Army project...remember the Platypus Islander?
That died a death because of the RAF successfully Borging the project - and changing it from low cost robust short-field system to a nice comfy business jet.
If the Islanders had been built they could probably have flown from the new carriers - without catapults
That died a death because of the RAF successfully Borging the project - and changing it from low cost robust short-field system to a nice comfy business jet.
If the Islanders had been built they could probably have flown from the new carriers - without catapults
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Maybe the army should do it. ISTAR is used by the army.
That said I would be pleasantly surprised if anyone from the army realised that military activity and foreign policy is bigger than the army.
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A fair point and well presented. I just think it would be better that ISTAR that is supporting the army COULD be a little more efficient if army ISTAR dudes were involved. Maybe a whole can of worms may get opened on this topic