Flying slots

[Chief_Tech]

I’m just going to link these two posts…

@Cab

Be careful of considering alternatives eg removing both types in favour of funding flying at civ locations. This is not a future I want nor do I think it is a better future for RAFAC.

@Chief_Tech

Can of Worms number 3

Privatisation of military assets. So privatisation has been creeping more & more into area that exclusively use to be government prerogatives.

Search & Rescue is a good example, along with flying training plus other non-military aspects such as prisons or Government Pipeline & Storage System

Should gliding, flying & parachute training be outsourced for cadets (the most vulnerable group in the military) then there would be a push to privatise these aspects making our armed forces dependent on private companies for operations even more than they currently are (& avoid the problem of strike action by the civilians)

When G4S dropped out of the olympics the military had to pick up the slack something they would never want to do with areas that are operational such as flying training, particularly with the likely sausage grinder transactional nature that comes with the private/commercial sector.

If you lose from the RAF side you will never get it back & then the civvy side will rinse you.

May also be worth checking if Ascent have an exclusivity clause before pushing for civilian providers (think of it like MT & clarity/Phoenix & the faff that causes when we could just go direct to the local enterprise down the road)