Do we all look ‘American’ when wearing No. 5s?
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I just do not get blue camo, it just not a thing. Just make it plain blue or proper multicam with big Air Force patch.
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Grey multicam makes sense. Blend into the operating surface!
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the yanks tried that
I don’t see it as practical camouflage but following tradition. Traditionally, the air force wore exactly the same battle dress uniform as the army: only in a different colour. This follows that tradition more closely than blue boiler suits, in my opinion.
RN uniform would be better off grey, so they blend in with the ship, when dry: changing to luminous orange when submerged in water.
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And it was a good idea.
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One might still be allowed to wear the Thunderbird No2 jacket: has anyone out there seen the official order or instruction declaring it obsolete? The reason for withdrawal from service could have been the electrical static hazard caused by the material, like the old jokes about the smart casual civvy clothes worn off-duty at the WOs & SNCOs Mess (earthing spikes included).
A BD jacket made from light wool to match the No2 trousers, light blue shirt and tie would work for me. The wool serge original BD could only be worn in the pre-global warming era.
I’ve never liked the GPJ: it must be the least military-looking garment in the UK Armed Forces, and it’s not cool-looking enough to wear as a civvy Harrington-type jacket with your stonewashed jeans and oxblood Doc Marten’s. 
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But it is fun, and if you do it properly, you can pressure test their Circle of Willis.
After seeing what the AAFC have to wear, I’m never complaining about our 1970s vintage No2 uniform again. I’d even wear a GPJ instead if someone pointed a gun at me and forced me to make the choice under pain of death.
I wonder what the thought process was for choosing blue cammo? “This is what the sky - the environment in which air forces operate - looks like.” Somebody really thought that??
Well maybe whilst undergoing some creepy 1960s era Porton Down test of LSD on human subjects, to see what the effects are of weaponising it for delivery upon a target.
“One of the tasks we can get out volunteers to do is to match camouflage patterns with the surrounding environment.”
“We’ll keep the results: the information might well be useful in the future.” 
In that case the Royal Air Force should wear a slate grey combat uniform, to blend in with today’s default UK weather. Blue battledress was fine pre-global warming, when there wasn’t so much cloud cover and rain (I’m thinking the long hot Summer of 1940 here… Squadron Scramble! Bandits at Angels fifteen!
When the RAF was the ‘Few,’ but actually bigger than before or ever since).
The Aussies have the opposite problem - droughts - so their uniform should be red and yellow to match wildfires. 
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That’s the DCPU Hearts and Bunnies kit.
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Well that’s certainly a different name to what we used to call it…
Jelly bean?
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…You called … 
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I mean uniform being available would be nice…
Being a tall, skinny lad means that things don’t tend to fit well. The only thing that fits well is MTP… which isn’t… even… from RAFAC’s stores because… well if I’m honest I don’t really know.
(Yes I’m a CCF Cadet. Be disappointed)
The brightside is of course it’s MTP.
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Interestingly, it seems that all these suggestions have been raised to DPSG over the summer by Regional FCOs and then the Corps FC Desk…
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Shows how long it’s been since I did a range day with cadets: they weren’t even wearing helmets at the time, let alone body armour.
i would add the blue wings to the shirts (especially as the jumpers are very scratchy)
I never knew the ATC had its own buttons for FSCs. I wonder why we don’t use those on jumpers for lanyards?