For the uninitiated perhaps you could explain the following:
a. Who are these 'schedulers'? In ye olde days the program was hacked out 'in house' ie on the squadron. Don't tell me the RAF now suffers from the same affliction the airlines do ie workloads and lifestyles determined by a spotty-faced clerk who knows all the rules but never has to live with the reality and the consequences of their output.
b. If there so little flying going on, and with an ever shrinking front-line, what is filling these 11 hour days?
Many thanks