Is that nonsense of the Phone Answering Branch
still going on? I was once nearly joe'd for a stint in some desert dump because the DetCo refused to have anyone from the PAB in his Ops room. Fortunately I didn't go - the bloke who did said it was a waste of time and he ended up doing most of the wrok so his boss could go and get drunk with his cronies.....
I'm sure that the option of a tour in the UK with predictable hours would offer a pleasant change for many hard worked aircrew. Things like UASs used to offer that - except that the beancounters got rid of any meaningful levels of QFI requirement and instead formed the University Air Cadets....
