LJ
You know I agree with alot of what you say but please consider this:
UK average house price in 2004 £150,000
UK average house price in 2022 £295,000
Flt Lt pilot salary in 2004 £49,500
Flt Lt pilot salary in 2022 £77,500 (your numbers)
That means that the Flt Lt in 2004 could buy the average house with three times their salary. In 2022 it takes almost four times their salary.
Many of those Flt Lt pilots now live in parts of the UK where the average house costs a hell of a lot more than that. I think the hierarchy of the RAF have forgotten that their life lived in a nice house in a nice part of the country is not the life that the current crop of pilots will ever live. And that is why they all head East.
I know the AFPRB can’t fix that but a little bit of honesty and acceptance of facts would go at least part of the way to acknowledging the problem.
BV