Would I encourage anyone to join the RAF as a aircraft engineer? I should do, but what are they going into? Limited locations that more than half most of us would put in as negative choices to go and to establishments where manning such a problem that people I know just have had enough. Yes the comradeship is way better than civvy street, but a 30 year old LAE is going to be on way more cash than a 30 year old Cpl.