LFFC Said
"Mind you, there is an easy way out of this mess. Give all Career Spine sqn ldrs automatic transfer to the Professional Aviator Spine after they reach age 44. That would be a bit like the old option to leave at age 44 if you hadn't been promoted to wg cdr by that age. Of course, that doesn't mean that they will get another flying tour (as some on the PAS have recently found out) but it would be retention positive."
The only trouble is that "Career" and "Professional Aircrew" are, from my observation of life in the RAF over the last thirty years, totally incompatable. PAS is for those who are good at their flying jobs and not those who have dicked everyone else trying to make Wg Cdr.