Ah but Dan, you have to remember that (as I was once told), the level of bull$hit is inversely proportional to the importance of the aircraft!
After I finished the CFS course, a Bulldog had to be collected/swapped with another at (I think) Topcliffe. All the instructors were busy, so I said I'd be happy to do the trips. There then followed much sucking of teeth - I was no longer a CFS student, so they couldn't find a rule which would allow me to do that simple trip. So no-one would authorise it! "In which case I might as well bug ger off home", I said..... So I did!
6 months earlier, I'd been pre-authorised to fly a VC10K3 to Hawaii and back. Yet in Learning Command no-one would authorise a basic landaway from Lincolnshire to Yorkshire and back.....
Last edited by BEagle; 17th Aug 2022 at 19:57.