Ginseng,
I am one of those who had the choice of staying as Flt Lt and being allowed to transfer to PAS OR accepting promotion to Spec Aircrew Sqn Ldr (and no PAS). Trusting the system and proud to having finally being picked up for promotion, I chose the promotion.
What a mistake to a make! Not only have I dipped out on my pension but I now have to chose whether to stay on AFPS75 or transfer to 05. Now here is another problem-I have a reduced flying med cat and Glasgow have sent me a prediction of my Life Commutation HOWEVER I cannot find out by how much, if any, of this Life Commutation may be reduced by until I have my release medical in 3 years time-I could lose the lot potentially.
So in short, I have 3 months to make a decision but I don't have a vital piece of the information ie how much my life commutation would actually be-how can I be expected to make this decision without the full picture? And, no-one is prepared to help and worse still does anyone care.