What utter bolleaux with which to waste peoples' valuable time, PA and RP.
Was the F658 system
so difficult?
Mind you, the logic of the system was pretty flawed in the last couple of years of my time. I had to go to High Wycombe for some meeting about a forthcoming exercise and was happy to use my own car, given that I live on the east (High Wycombe) side of Brize.
When the claim came back, 'they' had deducted 7 miles 'personal contribution'... So I rang to query this silliness.
"Say I'd driven from Brize to High Wycombe and back. Would you have paid for the whole journey?"
"Of course, Sir"
"So, if I'd driven from home to Brize, gone round the entrance roundabout, then back to the A40 and past my house on the way to High Wycombe some 30 minutes after leaving home - and the same thing on return - you'd have paid the whole lot? As well as RPOD for the day"
"Err....yes, Sir"
"But because I've saved myself and the RAF some 60 minutes of driving, you've knocked off 7 miles?"
"Err, err....that's correct, Sir"
"Can you not see how daft that is?"
"Them's the rules, Sir"
...and lo, slowly but surely did the pins in the B&Y begin to move....
