if the guy was a loady, what makes him different from your experienced Q holding Harrier, F3, GR4,Typhoon, Sentry or Jag NCO / SNCO
ALOT. HE is Aircrew. They are not (Sentry excepted perhaps). Ground one member of a crew and you have lost that whole crew from the tasking plot.
Haven't spent much time out of the Fast Jet world, have you?
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