... And oh BTW, this was just a pilot trainer evolution on the squadron's home cycle. On deployment, crews are routinely preflighting broke dick aircraft for 7-8 hours, and then expected to fly for another 8 hours . I don't see the situation being rectified until the P-8 arrives in numbers to the fleet....another 6-10 years down the pike....OR a squadron Skipper or Wing Commodore tells group that they cannot maintain crew qual requirements/Optempo with the cards they are dealt....and the latter will NEVER happen!
What do you do on an 8 hour preflight? Does that include flight planning and/or maintenance D&T?