You infer civilian operators wing it and use their checklists for toilet paper, they don't on both scores.
No, I was merely rebuffing TrimStab's dig that RAF pilot's waste time during start as we don't pay for our fuel - any more than a BA or Virgin pilot 'pays' for his fuel of course. A J could be started up a tad quicker but only provided we were content to discover that some systems weren't functioning until we were airborne.
As for reveted ground running bays as I understand it it's not just the cost of providing them but the damage to the props caused by reflected sound & vibration that reduces their life expectancy hugely.
Of course all the woe & tribulation for the citizens of Oxfordshire could be solved by the re-opening of the secret Wiltshire airbase but that's never going to happen (more's the pity) and besides they'd still all get a nasty shock next September when the 'beast from Seville' arrives and we'd be right back where we are now.....