PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Reserve QFIs
Thread: Reserve QFIs
View Single Post
Old 29th Nov 2007, 19:16
  #31 (permalink)  
ShyTorque

Avoid imitations
 
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Wandering the FIR and cyberspace often at highly unsociable times
Posts: 14,580
Received 438 Likes on 231 Posts
I was approached in 1995 to become one of the first five HRR (High Readiness Reserve) rotary pilots.

The RAF would pay me a daily rate, I think it was less than £30, for the days I worked. They expected my present employer, in a foreign country, to allow me the time off, a minimum of 28 days and up to 36 days per year, and to hold open my job if I went to war. The only way I could achieve this was to use up all my annual leave every year.

It would cost me £1200 round trip to travel to the base in UK. The RAF would only pay my motor mileage from the arrival airport to Odiham.

Not surprisingly, I turned down the kind and thoughtful offer.

It looks like they haven't moved on very far since then.
ShyTorque is offline