Flip - EGDL has moved on a little (only a little mind!) since you left and, as I mentioned earlier, this det business is now our bread and butter sadly. We do regularly surge for the RiPs but even then it's only another frame going out rather than multo crews. With a little planning and rationalisation the det tasking is perfectly do-able.
It seems as if your problem is knackered ac and those that aren't knackered are in theatre?
Spot on pretty much. Our engineering world has been decimated over recent years and the line (a non-deployable unit of course, and manned as such) have to run 2 deployable eng lines as well as the line here. There's only so much they can do hence we are constantly fighting for training frames here.
OmegaV6 - I know flip very well thx and in my 14 years here I've picked up a fair bit too
