I've just made the questionable decision to join FR as an non typed skipper and the base salary is £69k, everything else seems the same. Two of my colleagues who are joining are in the same boat and have been offered the same. No doubt this is so that we pay for the TR in addition to being bonded, though there is no mention of the salary going up 5k after the bond is over. If I had any intention of staying beyond 500h I suppose I should be annoyed, but it is just a means to an end.