At some point a decision needs to be made - if you fly from the sea, you need to work, properly, from the sea.
ATG et al
I know I go on about this but The RAF (and possibly the Army) May end up with a recruitment/retention problem if we go down that route
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I know its quite old and cant help but wonder if attitudes have changed. But to me if you turn round to the RAF and say to the chaps "Well 4000-odd of you are now going to take up from where the FAA left off" then I reckon there would be a mass exidous- just like the last time!