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The average Canadian voter cares little about defence. If the government cuts spending and there is no public outcry, none of us should be surprised when defence gets torpedoed. What the govt needs is some “consequences of its decisions” internationally. We won’t change internally - people...

Spent a day or two there. Nice place, I always enjoyed Scotland so much.

Not that I know of. They were on publicly accessible land and plain voice frequencies.

Lossie was predominantly a Typhoon base during those years; the group was mostly interested in fighters but would also see us, USN, and French MPAs show up for exercises and ops on a fairly regular basis. When there was no exercise in the news, it was likely a wee bit obvious what those...

Ya. Just glad they didn’t take pics of people and post faces etc. We’d pass them on the way to Delta hard after the brief at the MAOC and they’d wave…

Yup. Sounds like a tactical C/S, talking to ATC they’d probably be using a “normal” one until they chopped operational. There was plane spotter group in Lossiemouth that used to monitor the frequencies and post our ATC and Op callsigns, as well as when we took off and in what direction and...

One of my best friends is called “crew rest policy/rules”. No sleep-y, no fly-y. 🤙🏻 🙂

Go Air Force. At least you can be disappointed in your own hotel room…

I hope you’re not going to be too disappointed when those hopes stay hopes vs reality.

How many fuel stops and was that with a typical mission load?

Ahh, seen. I think the RPAS allowance should fall somewhere around the higher end LDA - SOF Supporter CAT 1 levels in terms of $. I have no doubt they will be high demand/high op tempo/high burn-out.

This article has some relevance from an operational realities/impacts on the people who will crew/support RCAF RPAS. Mark is originally from the LRP fleet and has since completed his OUTCAN with the USN P-8 fleet. The Mental Health Risks Associated with Remotely Piloted Aircraft Operations

I forgot to mention the Spewer/CHUD folks in Afghanistan. We also have some aircrew working with NATO RPAS on OUTCANs, and some ASCOs who have done exchange postings with the RAAF that did operational tours in a theatre IIRC.

For clarity, I was thinking SOF Supporter vice assaulters, similar to the $ levels for CAT 1 supporters at this link...

Not the same level of compensation; I should have worded it differently. I meant “similar as in their ATC isn’t going to deal with targetting / dropping kill stores on other humans. RPAS crews…more than likely. They will likely experience things like Aurora crews did in Libya, Iraq and...

What link?

I’d support an allowance different than AIRCRA, similar to CANSOF supporter levels; AIRCRA is rather peanuts, especially at the start, after taxes. I was getting $327/month AIRCRA for just shy of 120 flying hours on IMPACT R0. It’s not a motivator to anyone who takes 30 seconds to do some...

We can look at pictures of people enjoying turkey in yester-year while we eat our allotted 3ozs of Beyond Meat simulator food?

I’ve posted my “not in any way from official sources” expectation on official Govt news on this; I am betting the answers will be known shortly after we eat turkey in Oct.