I remember that Det very well - flew in on 5 Nov, flew out 27 Nov. Lots of sectors, not many hours - longest was less than 3 hours, shortest was 10 mins. Started off in a posh hotel somewhere downtown and then moved to apartments about half way through. Apologies for continuation of thread drift, so back on track ........
In the Summer of '87 I was chosen by my Sqn boss to take part in a trial for the AR5. This started with a repeat of the AR5 course at N Luff and then moved to a HAS at Honington. We (maybe 30 peeps from various ac types) lived in the HAS for up to 4 days at a time and each day did the whole leaving the HAS and coming back in thing doing the don/doff of the AR5 a couple of times a day for 2-3 hours each time. While outside there was a room with a TV (can't hear anything due the whistling handbag) and when not raining the great outdoors to walk around in - all while wearing the AR5. When it was time to return to moonbase HAS we walked a specified distance through some sort of chemical spray which was allegedly harmless, but easy to detect so that post doffing the effectiveness of the kit in keeping chemicals out could be assessed. When back in the HAS, eat, sleep, read, get bored. The whole thing took about 3 weeks.
Without doubt one of the most miserable times of my life! Never got any feedback on the outcome of the trial, but I guess it can't have been too bad because it stayed in Service (or it was bad but the thought of admitting that would be too hard to contemplate).
Rgds to all