When, not talking about the blue suiters, im talking about the idle cs types, the ones that have a job for what most of us cover as a secondary duty. You cant have them sue you for half a million for spaining a wrist if they dont work for you.
How about MOD not spending money on designer chairs and widescreen TVs in every room?
How about getting rid of tosh glossy magazines, "Equality in the armed forces" "U NEED 2 KNOW" (actually useful) "IPTs bumper book of quizzes" Etc, axe the jobs that are used to produce/publish said bumf then send out the required information via... Wait for this... something called a PDF file using this thing called... wait for it... Email!!! Or perhaps just a link on the intranet where you can research said above tosh if you ever wanted to waste 2 hours of your life looking at it! All of the above ends in the cylindrical "recycling bin" in the office anyway! Why waste cash that could be going on body armour/Fuel for training? I admit, I love Air Power review and Flight Safety articles, but why are they not available as a PDF as an alternative? N.E.C. has a long bloody way to go if we cant master the basics of Microsoft windows and Adobe Reader!!! It would make the docs a little more transportible too...
Get rid of PEd Flights. Pay fit young blonde things in small skirts to teach us "Fiz" contracted from fitness first. savings from: No pensions, no welfare requirements, no training costs for current ped staff... why is it the one section that should have been a perfectly civilianizable (yes, I made that word up) still exists? Part of said contract could be use of contracted gym by service personel in low demand hours, also, after hours "Fiz" so that some of us that are chained to our desks from 8 am till 6 pm may get said opportunities to do "fiz". Part of their contract is to maintain a certain %age of station at fitness test levels.
Here is a contentious one; how about axing actuals, issueing a flat rate and getting rid of the space capacity that would generate as a result of reduced audits? The flat rate could be lower than the cap (say 5 quid cheaper when combined with incidentals), thus allowing even more cost savings?
TLBs; review the way cash is divvied out with very small bonuses/vouchers for departments that underspend their budgets, however, they must meet TORs in doing so and not breach QA guidelines; spare cash at the end of ther FY can be divvied out then to more needy budgets like, say, paying FOR FUEL FOR OUR BLOODY TRAINING AIRCRAFT
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Zebra, I would recommend if you dont have the assets to meet the task, refuse to sign aircraft off. Shrug off any grief from Sqn Bosses/XOs Wing Cdr Enges. If they want to take the risk, let them sign the paperwork. Not a single aircrew mate will think badly of you just because a 4 ship or any other task for that matter got cancelled due to a flight safety risk. By the sounds of it, the treasury couldnt care less if we don't get our training, so why should you if you are stretched to the extent whereby an aircraft accident could kill someone due to overstretch/Dilution?
Until a lot of people get killed or until someone says No, nothing will change.