Anyone know if Creamies are still a thing in MFTS?
I think it is still, and always has been, a FW thing. You used to have to do 2 tours in the RAF before QHI and I would have been the first to do it after first tour in NI had they not need Wessex 'experience' (1000 hours in 2 year tour) in Cyprus so another colleague went QHI after one tour a few months later.
Most people who did NI as a tour in the 80s (and probably 70s and 90's) easily broke 1000 hours in their 2 years and it was all short hop, multiple take offs and landings, usually at MAUW and in ****e weather with a very real small arms and SAM threat, so brilliant training for a first tourist.
And just before anyone starts - I know it wasn't 'Nam but for a peace-time situation there was a lot of shooting and bombing going on.
