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The RCAF's Next Generation Fighter (CF-188 Replacement)
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Which means more instructor pilots, for which we need more pilots, and we could outsource but guess where they'd be hiring from?If the pipeline is full and you are short of pilots, you need a new pipeline.
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Mark. I don't know what it means. I've been out for over fifteen years. But I just keep hearing over and over again from the folks who are still there about their woes. Then I look up this article from 2018 which says the RCAF is short pilots and maintainers. It's not a new issue. Its been 7-8 years (probably many more) and we're still in the same position.
Any money-making industry that would consistently fail to meet targets (or even worse set targets which do not solve the problem) for that long would have fired its management team years ago and gone back to address the issue by the short and curlies and overhauled the system from the ground up. There are clearly systemic problems. Nope. I can't tell you what they are - retired, remember. Can't tell you how to solve them, either. But sometimes the people working inside the system can't see the forest for the trees while those standing on the edge looking in can not only see the whole forest but can also see that it isn't healthy.
I sometimes wonder - and I'm not saying that I'm right in this - but I wonder if bundling the three services into one wasn't a mistake and that the big hulking mass in Ottawa, by having to look at all issues but from one level removed, simply isn't agile enough to either see or react in a timely manner.
