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Issue 243: Power On
Power flight
Keeping hold of and motivating its junior helicopter pilots, observers, and crewmen has been a difficult task for the Royal Australian Navy of late, particularly while its three operational helicopter types, the Seahawk, Seasprite, and Sea King, suffer from upgrade program set-backs, service entry problems, and just plain old age.
With morale low and around 40 junior aircrew projected by Navy planners to be waiting for operational flight training (OFT) on only a handful of these types by August 2008, their immediate pros-pects were looking grim.
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