Tailchase,

You are right, I think the future of the Flight Ops specialization is on very thin ice and heading for a slow and painful demise. My gut feeling is, that after years of neglect and blatant indifference, is that it will be subsumed into the wider Ops Spt branch. This will be a real pity, as despite it's rocky start, there are some very talented people people out there doing a bloody good job who will never get the recognition or the jobs they deserve.

Our only saving grace is that we are cheap to train; though I would hate to see us revert to the days of being the dumping ground for anyone who gets chopped from Pilot/ATC/ABM etc with no "new blood" straight from Cranwell.

3FTS UBAS and 115(R) @ RAFC also recruiting for RAFR F/L QFI's

FTRS Vacancies List

It would also appear OASC are looking for a couple of RAFR F/L's as Boarding Officers

There will be more. ;)

Cheers JAJ ... It's quite interesting to see what's on the RAFR VL against F/L and S/L ...

Seems to be the plan.

Stage 1 is to pull as many QFIs into FTRS as possible from the cadre already qualified to save money and avoid the manning cap.

Stage 2 is to wonder why you have very few QFIs available for the frontline requirement.

Stage 3 is for the FTRS cadre to leave through natural wastage.

Stage 4 is for the system to fall on its arse whilst issuing formal denials.

Stage 5 is to wonder why we did Stage 1.

The plan is working well but as some fleets were already at Stage 4 before the start of the plan we may need to work harder on our institutional denials to allow other fleets to catch-up.

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