Originally Posted by
huge72
I liked the one at Shawbury, as the staff were always great. I do remember once however when doing a NI change over at Valley, I popped into the feeder for lunch whilst waiting for the cab from Benson to arrive before returning to Aldergrove. I had just sat down and was about to start eating when a young student pilot asked me to leave as the feeder was only for aircrew and officers. Without embarrassing the young man too much I had to explain that although at the time I was only a Flight Sergeant I was Aircrew as denoted by the Eagle on my Rank Tabs. And this on a station with NCO Aircrew , albeit on the other side of the airfield, on 22 Sqn and SARTU.
The phrase …’only a Flight Sergeant’ offends me. If I recall correctly it was achieved after ~ 11 years as aircrew, and normally far longer as ground crew. In both cases denoting considerable experience.