All......
As a non-pilot (sorry, but someone has to be!) can I take it that the concensus seems to be forming that the correct figures to use are:
Pilot
OF2 (Flt Lt) £0.707
OF3 (Sqn Ldr) £0.705
Navigator
OF2 (Flt Lt) £0.523
OF3 (Sqn Ldr) £0.521
Rearcrew
OF2 (Flt Lt) £0.449
OF3 (Sqn Ldr) £0.447
These figures would seem to make sense to me. When the scheme was first introduced/muted (2002?) the figure for navigator was about £0.48. I am sure of that!! Given three years of pay rises at about 3% a year this would bring it up to about £0.52, as quoted above. To get to £0.86 from about £0.48 is an 80% rise in three years - which seems highly unlikely!