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Britain
RAF's Top Gun wannabes are spending years flying DESKS instead of planes due to shortage of aircraft and instructors
2022-08-08
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Britain has been shorting their military for at least two decades. This is more of the same.
  • Over half of people in the flying training system are waiting for a training place

  • Instructors have had to reschedule training to protect UK airspace

  • It could mean not enough pilots are available to operate future frontline planes

  • Trainee pilots are waiting around in UK military buildings 'on hold' for a space
Posted by:Skidmark

#2  At least the Brits are grounded due to good ol’ bureaucratic bullsh!t instead of tiedown or meteorological ineptitude that allows your airforce to be blown overboard or tossed around….
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2022-08-08 16:20  

#1  "Quantity has a quality all its own." When the RAF is down to one (1) airplane they can wheel it into a museum and save it for posterity.
Posted by: magpie   2022-08-08 13:14  

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