disgruntled wrote:The fact is the RAF isn’t there to entertain.
People chose to spend £50 even though the general consensus on here is that the service can’t give two hoops about the “enthusiasts”. Said enthusiasts then moan when they got what many on here would say they saw coming. The simple answer is don’t go!
I do have sympathy with the comments from those that went that they feel short changed. On the face of it they certainly look as if they were. But, as someone also pointed out it was for charity therefore should be seen as a voluntary donation.
It seems you're not quite getting this. Of course they're not there to entertain as a primary function but organising this event or even the existence of the Red Arrows suggests very much that entertaining in the name of public relations and recruiting are definitely a small element of what they do. And as for the charity thing, that's also a poor excuse. It would almost be better if they asked me to post them 50 quid and then I could have saved a days holiday and my petrol money and the RAF might have come out in a better light.
Anyway, you're quite entitled to think we're all entitled cowards and that the RAF is quite entitled to fleece us of 50 quid because we asked for it. And I'd like to stress that despite my current irritation and disappointment after yesterday's farce that I do still have great admiration for the RAF. It's just that right now I'm not speaking to them.