I read all the above with dismay. The leadership of the RAF has made yet another clumsy, maladroit policy decision leading to bad publicity at a time when the aviators [did I get that right?] are doing a superb job with crap resources in very uncertain times.
Just what was not needed. Bums in the back garden, Broken Arrows, a history of lies about accident culpabilities, and now this.
I only served as a civvy add-on, but I did so as one who loved the RAF, its ethos and efficiency, its humour and its comradeship.
For God's sake get a grip.