Apache
Good luck to him if that's what he wants to do. Envy is a terrible thing. The army air corps was always an Officers flying club, with SNCO's doing the majority of flying, which was great. I never envied them there desk jobs. More to the point who is going to do the cleaning for the REME servicing inspections, normally a pilot/crewman job.
Maybe he'll join us on the North Sea one day.