MOD require escape and evasion trainers and para training aircraft
Having been an ALM on Hercs, it will indeed be a sad day when we loose the C130 and it may be sometime before the Atlas A400M has the full para capability. But lets be honest there is a school of thought that since the last real Para Operational Jump was Suez in 1956 do we really need the full gambit. As long as we have a platform to do SF para tasks then we will have to wait until the Atlas does it all! Hat Coat etc!
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We all need to remember the difference between a T&E crew doing a highly controlled capability demonstration on SPTA and the lowest common denominator crew being able to perform it operationally and under pressure. Miles apart, yet people treat them as the same - ditto for the CDS despatch and any other number of shiny photos and videos that people are using as proof that the A400M is covering C-130 tasks. Right now I'd wager there are no LLP qualified individuals on 30, LXX or possibly even XXIV.
