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CF seeking industry input into future pilot training

Dimsum said:
A possible way of getting aircrew (and other) officers out of some random staff positions is to do what the RAAF did and create an "Operations Officer" trade.  It's not very senior (capped at FLTLT or SQNLDR) but these people do all of the Ops jobs that Pilots/ACSOs/etc. do at Sqn/Wing HQs. 
Like the HCA of the health services community?
 
An update:  new focus on interim, not final solution ....
.... 3. Canada recognises that there has already been a significant amount of valuable open engagement and dialogue with industry as part of the initial work to help understand the challenges of FPT (Future Pilot Training).  This existing work and outputs from previous engagements continues to be evaluated to ascertain what benefits may be transferred into the efforts now focusing on iFPT (interim Future Pilot Training).

4. The iFPT project team is currently working to establish the strategic requirements and identify the business needs required to allow it to receive approval to start its OA (Options Analysis) process. It is anticipated that a further RFI may be released once this initial scoping work has been completed.

Responses Requested

5. No response to this update is requested from industry. The purpose is to inform industry that there has been a change in the FPT project and that a new project, iFPT has been created to address any potential gap in pilot training. 

6. This change to how Canada intends to implement FPT will be included in the next edition of the Defence Acquisition Guide (DAG) ....
 
Yet another update - highlights mine ....
.... The purpose of this document is to provide an update on the status of the Future Pilot Training project, and advise Industry of the requirement to acknowledge, sign, and submit the Rules of Engagement attached at Annex A.

In the last LOI, Canada indicated that a new project, iFPT had been created to address any potential gap inpilot training and that the project team would establish the strategic requirements and identify the business needs in order to start the Options Analysis process. Canada also indicated that a further LOI would be released once the initial scoping work had been completed ....
 
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