As well as being an ex-Jet2er and current long haul gear monkey for Britain's
actual favourite airline
I'm also still an Auggie sim instructor so sit around the crewroom a couple of times a month listening to the current harsh realities of RAF manning.
I'd heartily agree with Bloodhound Loose that it's going to be a close run thing weathering this particular storm. Things are certainly "interesting" at the ATAAR Superbase with large numbers of people looking outside the RAF. At the same time though some people have recognised that it is potentially an "exciting" time to be in the RAF with new aircraft and capabilities planned for the near future. Sadly for most of everyone else that "excitement" is heavily outweighed by the ever-present embuggerances that the RAF seem to create in all areas of the job.
As someone said to me in the sim recently "the Air Force don't need to give me more money or FRIs or whatever. They just need to make the job less ****."
