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BA to RAF
Surprised nobody has picked up on this yet, perhaps it's only just appeared on the Sky News webpage?
https://news.sky.com/story/coronavir...dment-11986803
https://news.sky.com/story/coronavir...dment-11986803
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A secondment might suggest an element of loan pay from BA. And a job is perhaps better than no job.
This has raised its head before, sometime in the 1970s IIRC. Nothing came of it then and; possibly apart from a small number of recent leavers; I would be surprised if anything came of it this time.
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I dont believe that any of the younger (less experienced) BA pilots who have not been in the forces will cut the mustard. Many will be washed out at the officer training stage. If indeed it was to happen.
The article said up to 48 months secondment so presume they will only do a tarts and vicars course followed by a rapid OCU to get the most bang for the buck?
Surely if they can capably fly a large aircraft without crashing it into anything/anyone then they should do okay on the RAFs large aircraft without the complete officer training bit?
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I’ve never flown for BA or the RAF so am interested to hear why they wouldn’t cut the mustard.
The article said up to 48 months secondment so presume they will only do a tarts and vicars course followed by a rapid OCU to get the most bang for the buck?
The article said up to 48 months secondment so presume they will only do a tarts and vicars course followed by a rapid OCU to get the most bang for the buck?
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Last edited by Redcarpet; 12th May 2020 at 13:31.
Pilots with no military experience will have to go through 6 months officer training. Re-treads would undertake 2 week refresher course. As always, you join the military as an officer first and pilot second. There’s a lot more to the job than simply poling a large aircraft around.
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Six months IOT followed by the standard hold would make the whole exercise pointless as there wouldn’t be any opportunity to return any productive service within the suggested timescales. Either entry requirements need to be somewhat abridged or the whole thing should be restricted to retreads.
Three year Return of Service I believe.
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I can't tell if this is tongue-in-cheek or serious. If the later, I'm actually embarrassed for you.