Dozens of RAF fast jet trainees stuck in pipeline

Dozens of RAF fast jet trainees stuck in pipeline

Forty-eight of the 119 trainee fast jet pilots currently in the Royal Air Force’s training pipeline are in some form of holding pattern, either parked on a holdover between courses or waiting in line to begin their front-line operational conversion unit, in figures that suggest the long-running bottleneck in British fast jet training has yet to be cleared. The numbers came in a pair of written answers issued on Monday by the Parliamentary Under-…