Originally Posted by
WhoNeedsANav
I'm sure I read parts of it when I was at Cranwell. QR's often felt like the bible to me. Lots of people quoted from it but very few had read it cover to cover. I count myself in that group.
I know the RAF wanted people to be 'Officer first' but I'll be honest and say I joined for the flying and I think most of the aircrew of my era would have been the same.
So anything I did read in QR's I quickly forgot about because I didn't feel it was relevant to my job. I left it to the blunties to remind everyone that they were entitled to ride a horse into work, etc.
in fact, in most of my experience the people that care about that stuff only have time to care about it because the were not actually involves in delivering air power. Maybe that is you, I don't know.
I always tried to keep up to date -that way when blunties lied you could put them right. The difficulty in the early days was getting hold of the rules-the one thing JPA did do was make it all transparent.