You're right - the sums don't add up!! and yes it does get hot in the summer - last year temps reached 51 degs celcius by mid day, and no the aircraft are not air conditioned!! The aircraft do perform ok generally, but it's ******
hard and hot work.
One of the flight safety issues alluded to earlier are plans to try and make the instructors start flying very early in the morning(0500 met brief), fly until around 1200, then come back to work at around 1600 to do another couple of hours until just before dark!!! This is to try and make up for the lack of aircraft and instructor numbers.
Trying to get the message through that "spilt shifts" are not allowed to be used as a normal operating roster proved impossible>