Originally Posted by
Timelord
This is not a question of having someone “who should clean up after them”, it is a question of highly trained and very expensive aircrew spending their time on administrative tasks that could easily be done by someone less highly trained and cheaper.
Which is why, in the 80s, a whole bunch of GD(ATC) officers went to do 'other things' to release expensive Aircrew into the wild [sorry, wide blue yonder]. A bunch of us ended doing Int, Arms Control, War Plans and Policy and other stuff. Pay Pilots extra, go and be a Pilot.
Support staff was always deemed a luxury by Establishment Reviews. Whata a mistaka to makea.