Beat me to it BEAgs,
A few flying hours spent giving the future head-of-state an insight into the capabilities of his air force and at a the same time countering some of the institutional anti-RAF rhetoric he will have been exposed to in the Army is money well spent.
It is certainly better value than allowing some here-today, gone-tomorrow CAS to display his prowess by soloing in the latest wonder-fighter (and I don't really begrudge that either!)
Did the RAF not have any media-savvy people keeping any oversight of this whole project to prevent such own-goals?