Why not? They deserve it!
Another 2 examples:
1. It took a KwintyKwoo crew to take a Vickers Funbus over to the USA - just to do the C130J receiver trials. Fair enough for a TP or 2 on the C130J crew to be there to conduct handling assessments - but why in the tanker, for foxtrot's sake?
2. Boeing wanted to borrow back a 767 from BA to do fighter proximity trials as part of the FSTA programme. But then they needed some FJs to manoeuvre behind the 767. KwintyKwoo wanted to charge the earth to requalify les girls de Boscum to prod off a tanker (even though there was no prodding involved), to put their precious TPs on the 767 and to run the trial. Boeing and BA, quite reasonably, told them to $od off. So the jet was flown over to Pax River, the USN did the various trials and the tanker perspective was overseen by an experienced RAF AAR captain - at vastly less cost than KwintyKwoo had wanted to charge!
PS - Can't remember whether it was still DEARer then, or whether they'd become KwintyKwoo - but the rip-off principle was just the same!
Back to the thread - following that expensive trial, how often is the 130J doing AAR receiver work nowadays?