Thank-you all of you for the very useful information. Anybody care to post the CEP scale in the same format as DEP provided earlier?
Magnus - I presume that the differential between CEP and DEP closes after 4 years because the DEP salary stays flat for the first 4 years - is this correct?
All in all it the most important thing is to love what you are doing and I have only ever wanted to fly - unfortunately my graduation from University coincided with the pilot recruitment freeze so I'm hoping to rejoin the path I was destined to follow all along!
Desk-pilot