Last June national sent out a letter directing Regions to fund G8/Archer missions for aircrews to stay sort of proficient. There is a profile in 60-1 too. Have any Regions done this yet? Mine (RMR) apparently hasn't. Just wondering.
SER has a training mission w/ funds for it every month.
I'm pretty sure my wing ran at least two funded training activities for Archer this year, but those may have been wing funded.
The bigger challenge is having the aircraft in the place where the mission will be and not down for maintenance. Just moving the darn things around the Region tends to chew up flight hours and more than once we've received, or delivered one
with its maintenance clock ticking so loud it wasn't usable for anything but a return trip home or to the consolidated
facility.