Charlie,
I think you’re a little wide of the mark here. It’s not pilot availability that’s the issue. The aircraft are owned by the Grey family and Stephen has been very passionate about them over the years. He has nurtured Nick along the same lines, but Nick is very busy with his other work to be trotting across from where he lives to Duxford to fly warbirds for pleasure. Naturally, there is many millions of pounds worth of toys in the TFC fleet, many manhours of effort go into maintaining them and ultimately as they are machines, they need to be used frequently to be reliable. I predict a gradual streamlining,and possible relocation, but that is pure guesswork on my part.
We’ve been blessed and privelidged to see such fine machines up close, and many have taken that for granted (search for things like “too many spitfires” etc), so my advice is to enjoy it whilst you can.
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