The world has changed enormously since i joined the RAF in 1964. I even have been a civilian for 13 years; doesn't time fly. However, I left with two years to run because I saw the way everything was going. When I joined, flying was paramount and I had no idea how much I got paid. It was not an issue. I was paid sufficient to keep me in beer and to run a Triumph Spitfire. Everything else in my life was provided for; free food, batting, cheap booze, but above all, heaps of flying. My first tour was on a sunny island in the Med which housed 7 Squadrons. Fun we had in spades, pilots ran the Air Force and accountants was just a word in the dictionary. Now where is that jet for the weekend, multiple overseas postings and a support mechanism designed to do just that; support the flying task?