The self-important staff bit holds true - some of the Flight Commanders were truly appalling and their conduct was atrocious too. I remember one individual being ejected from a Dining-In Night by the Gp Capt (DIOT) for drunkenness, only to re-appear next day as if nothing had happened. At RMAS, he would have had an interview without coffee with the Commandant the following morning and have been immediately posted to see out his military career in somewhere like the Outer Hebrides or the Falkland Islands (I've been to both and so feel able to comment... )