Perhaps a simple maths lesson is in order for their Airships.
Working on a session of PT leading to about 1.5 hrs away from the desk, 3 times a week equals 4.5 hrs in total.
Now just for arguments sake let us say the working week is 40 hrs (I know this varies greatly but I'm trying to keep it simple).
That means that we are required to be away from our primary roles for 11.25% of the time. Therefore we should see a corresponding 11.25% increase in the trained strength of the RAF - simple really.
Perhaps if this simple rule was applied every time those who are supposed to run things think of new and interesting ways to keep us from our jobs (extra AFTs, JPA claims, Force Development added on to CCS, etc...) then we wouldn't be so overstretched. In fact we would probably be back at our pre 'Options for Change' manpower levels.
Seems like common sense to me.
Bear