McG
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PYs are fixed across the CAF, but we do have control over where they are located as well as the number that are paid as Cpl vs the number paid as Sgt or Capt. No fraction of the CDS factors into the lifecycle cost of any capital project; it is not that complicated.
The public does not understand PYs. They do understand $$. Consider your discussions in he F35 thread - there are arguments to buy a cheap aircraft to get 2 to 2.5 times the number of airframes at the same lifecycle cost. To a civi who will not understand discussion on technical capabilities, that sounds like a pretty good deal and they do not care that an additional 1.5 to 3 times the PY need to be harvested from other CAF functions to achieve this. However, if you do factor the personnel cost, then all of a sudden the bigger fleet of cheaper platforms starts to look less fiscally responsible to that civi.
SWE is already in project costs. Why not all pay?
The public does not understand PYs. They do understand $$. Consider your discussions in he F35 thread - there are arguments to buy a cheap aircraft to get 2 to 2.5 times the number of airframes at the same lifecycle cost. To a civi who will not understand discussion on technical capabilities, that sounds like a pretty good deal and they do not care that an additional 1.5 to 3 times the PY need to be harvested from other CAF functions to achieve this. However, if you do factor the personnel cost, then all of a sudden the bigger fleet of cheaper platforms starts to look less fiscally responsible to that civi.
SWE is already in project costs. Why not all pay?