Military Aircraft: Crew
(asked on 16th January 2024) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many fast jet pilots chose to apply for premature voluntary release in each of the past 10 years.
This question was answered on 29th January 2024
The below table shows the number of Voluntary Outflow applications submitted by fast-jet Pilots in the Regular Royal Navy and Regular Royal Air Force in the last ten financial years:
Financial Year (FY) | Royal Navy | Royal Air Force |
FY2013-14 | ~ | 20 |
FY2014-15 | - | 20 |
FY2015-16 | - | 20 |
FY2016-17 | - | 10 |
FY2017-18 | - | 20 |
FY2018-19 | - | 20 |
FY2019-20 | ~ | 20 |
FY2020-21 | ~ | 10 |
FY2021-22 | ~ | 10 |
FY2022-23 | - | 20 |
Notes:
- For the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy, Voluntary Outflow (VO) is defined as all exits from Trained personnel which are voluntarily generated by the individual before the end of their agreed engagement or commission period.
- Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10, though numbers ending in a “5” have been rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to prevent the systematic bias caused by always rounding numbers upwards, 5 or fewer is represented by '~', 0 is represented by '-'.