FAA v RAF, let's get down to the nub of all this, the social life: RAF, Friday night happy hour in the Officers' Mess in some forlorn, flat and dull part of the UK drinking beer in your flying suit, talking to other people drinking beer in their flying suits about how good you were that week.
FAA, cocktail party in some warm, exotic part of the world, in your bush jacket, gold stripes and wings on your chest talking to a very interesting young lady about how much you have always been interested in (insert country) and does she know anyone who might be able to take you on a tour up country for a few days?
So what's it to be, RAC Patrolman lookalike, or Tom Cruise, but taller and much more entertaining?