Paarmo, I believe you got my point, but :-
Some of those real people wore and wear blue uniforms
...I guess that this is also standard issue to prison officers..
What I don't see is the actual value added of such flights being significant, the comment :-
BA even based a Vanguard and BAC 1-11 at Teesside for a number of weeks to train crews.
Sums it up succinctly, you earn revenue from based aircraft & the personnel attached, but as for a few "wheelies" with the odd VC10 / Tristar belting out the decibels from the old Spey's or indeed "quieter" RB-211's then what else?
To me there would also seem to be a dearth of NATO heavy metal (or indeed any metal!) winging it's way across the North Sea to beat up the DTV circuit, may be I'm missing something ?
As for the RAF then don't they have their own bases to practice? as a tax payer then I can't see why one would want to expend money unnecessarily. In any event when the odd visit is necessary, presumably for variation?, then I have to assume that the facilities (ILS) at DTV inhibits many potential visits case in point, E3's don't seem to love DTV, judging by their propensity to visit NCL on such sorties!
