Caz - different Air Force, old chap, different Air Force. I can see it now:
Scene: Ops Desk Aldergrove
Boss:"Boac - I'd like you to take this 4-ship to Inverness today. You'll be leading the Nato demo tomorrow on Tain as you know. Here's the route - Sqn nav has planned it for you. Weather's basically OK, should be 5ks below an overcast, but with a bit of on-shore cloud on the Mull. Glen should be wide open and Inverness/Lossie are White at worst"
Young Boac -" Sorry Sir, I can't do that.- Jolly dangerous with cloud on the Mull"
" Sir - are you OK? You've turned purple and are choking"
"What was that, Sir? You want me to be O i/c the Sqn fish tank and to be Mess Secretary for a couple of years too?"
"No Sir - I don't do that - my mother told me I would go blind"
"Swap the lead, Sir? I'm number 4 now? Oh dear! I think I'm not fit to fly, actually, Sir - blocked ears"
Different Air Force. Dickie D would have explained it to you had you known him. He knew what the operational Air Force was about..