I for one feel a complete imposter / pillock when using an RN station for pax pickup in a civvy rotary wing wearing 4 gold bars on each shoulder, as I know what they are all thinking........what a complete imposter / pillock. (Their own fault tho' as they make us go to Ops to pay the landing fees - I'd be far happier staying by the aircraft!)
Having said that, I suppose I do still hold the Queen's commission .... and I was once a Chief Inspector in a different service!
Now I am just an airborne taxi driver. It did make me chuckle when a young Bobby recently called me "Sir" in the filling station at the airport, as he obviously thought I was one of his force's police inspectors.
