Whinging aircrew!
Let me start by saying what a surprise to find a website full of aircrew moaning about pay and conditions!
After hearing about PPrune at work at a certain FJ base (which will remain nameless) I thought it would be interesting to see what the guys were talking about. Well to be honest it doesnt surprise me in the slightest that its full of you guys whinging and bleating about how hard done by you are.
Why cant you just accepet the fact that aircrew are not the be all and end all of the RAF. We in the support branches have just as important a role if not more so than the aircrew.
If not flying you sit around the crewroom with a copy of the telegraph moaning that you deserve more than the already significant flying pay the rest of us do not get! If your job is demanding for a couple of hours a day, twice a week, this is more than balanced by most jobs in the RAF that are demanding 10 hours a day regardless of the weather.
Following on from this I would like to address the elitism that all wearers of a brevet seem to carry with them. In USAF and the RCAF all branches/trades have a specific brevet with differing insignia. This recognises the importance of all trades including the highly worked adminers like myself! Why should this not be the case in the RAF.....a modern airforce? Brevets are after all a hangover from the wartime days arent they?!
I would appreciate any thoughts on the above issues.