Biggus has summed my position up. As one of the lucky(?) ones in the 2-tier system who is not deployed and dicked around on a nearly permanent basis and being well paid in a cushy environment I have no reason to leave. I am not on PAS, couldnt get this salary outside (no transferable skills) and have a youngster with many years of school ahead of him. Now if I was in a branch/trade that was on ops more than I was at home, putting up with all the push factors that are aired on here I would have left already or be about to. There are people who are content - maybe they just dont air their views on pprune as much as the guys who are p*ssed off.