Stuff said:
There's a huge difference between flying an aircraft and operating an aircraft but of course none of the news stories seem to pick up on this. I wonder what the general public think of long and expensive regular RAF flying training when it can "obviously" be done in only a couple of months!
I've just been checking back through my diary. I see that during basic training, we were once given a free weekend during the first field firing package because of flooding on the Moors. Rather than have us loaf about kicking our heels, couldn't they have put us through the Loadmaster course?