I concur with Blogsey, the money is/was good for a 10yr FLTLT.
It wasn't the money I left for, it was the offer of a ground job and or a promotion for a life of ground jobs and postings to places my other half would have had to leave her 120K plus job for. I wasn't ready for that....at least not for another 10 years!!!!
Having looked at my first roster for my new company....I wonder if its too late to change my mind!
Having said that about the money however, if I behave in 3-4 yrs I could be earning more than a GPCAPT....and I wasn't ever going to get to that rank.
Lived trough the early 90s too when our planes were falling out of the skies and we killed a lot of people. Even though the ADF has been here before I think you would find the people left behind now have even fewer hours then those left behind in the 90s and again from the 80s. How many FLTLT with more than 1500hrs on the line on type? Different attitudes, more safety etc etc hopefully will help but I don't think it will be any safer for awhile.
I hope I'm very, very wrong!!!!!