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1. The British Government has recently reviewed the composition of the charges
which it requires to make against other governments when British Service personnel Care loaned to those governments.
2.
The British Government has always been conscious that these charges have only
Rezamel covered such elements as the current pay and allowances which 'an officer or atmon
received whilst on loan to a borrowing government. In assessing the charges no
persamel account hus hitherto been taken of the fact that an office or einen on loan to another
will
Hei government may have received expensive and valuable training during his service which
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then have
enables him to carry out proficiently the duties for which ha-hes boen loaned to the
borroring government and the banefits of which accrue to the other government during
the period of the loan,
3. By far the most expensive kind of training which the British Services have to
provide for their personnel is flying training and, in recent years, this has been
becoming ever more costly. It costs now, for example, well over £100,000 to produce
a fully trained RAF pilot, In the course of its review of charges for loaned
persomel the British Goverment has come to the conclusion that it can no longer
forogo soeking reimbursement from other governments for an appropriate share of tho
cost to the British Government of the flying training which aircrew have received
during their service.
The British Government has therefore decided that after 1st April 1963 an elenont
to cover on an amortized basis flying training expenditure will be added to the charges
which are currently made for all "General Duties" aircrew loaned overseas.
5.
For a fixed wing or helicopter pilot this additional charge is currently asso33eã
at £5,000 per annum.
6. The charge has been calculated by assessing the total annual cost of the RAF
flying training organisation and dividing this total firstly by the number of pilots trainod
by the organisation in a year and secondly by the number of effective years of flying
service which the RAF hopes to obtain from a trained pilot. The resulting figuro
for the annual cost per pilot is of the order of £5,000 and this figure has thus been
solected as the fixed charge.
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