Harry, it won't surprise many to hear that different bases fly different profiles & hours, depending on the urban/rural nature of most of their tasking. Drawing graphs, with the plethora of statistics that currently exist, would probably look like a mass of randomly interlinked spiders . . . anyway, you should know what they say about statistics
In any event, given the rate that different regions have been joining (or not), it wouldn't be easy to make any valid comparisons.
Encouraging the effective use of
any airframe, units do not generally go out on specific photo tasks (unless a large number have built up after a run of bad weather or servicing) and will normally dovetail them in to other daylight operations, without significant detour, on the way back to base. If you used a "cheap plank" for those very few urgent photo tasks that have to be flown specifically, it would still be a plank, and not cheap
