Cm looks like he's AWOL just now. I can answer one or two of your questions.
The SD98 rate? Allocated hours per crew, but it wasn't really possible to distribute the hours exactly. Things like leave, courses, detachments would reduce some guys' hours while the bloke that picked up a couple of Q scrambles at the end of the month would do very nicely. If memory serves, the average was probably something like 30 hours a month. Didn't take much to to occassionaly tip over 43.
Two sorties a day was quite common, especially if the Squadron was in a phase of training requiring shorter sorties with the tanks off, for example (combat or gunery, maybe). As for long sorties with tanking, 2, 2.5 hours. Long transits or QRA supported by a tanker could be 6 hours or so.
Last edited by Mach Two; 20th September 2012 at 06:37.