On the other hand.....what possible good is it to the RAF that the CAS can take time out of a supposedly busy schedule to prepare for and conduct such a flight? Are we to expect annual refreshers etc? Every time a military aircraft, especially a FJ, gets airborne it is, or should be, a calculated risk assessed by the authorising officer of the chance of an accident happening now versus the need of the sortie to be flown.
It's not his train set, by the way, it's mine, and the 60m odd other shareholders of UK plc, and I can't see the advantage to us of the CAS adding yet more time to the much advertised 4,000 FJ time in his Log Book. Stay in the office, Sir. There is a pile of stuff in your in tray of much much greater importance, as per nearly every thread on this Forum!
Senior Officers should stay well away from the sharp end of their aircraft, they have a bad habit of ending up in the middle of a cabbage patch. I was once asked by one of them for a "go", and respectfully told him that it was beyond my authority, or his, to oblige. He accepted that with grace, perhaps today's Airships are less reasonable?