I hate to be the one who says it but. To pay for the FRI, money had to be saved somewhere. Unfortunately it happened to baby pilots. The RAF has a history of taking from one hand to feed another, but in a few years all this will be forgotten. It is a crying
shame to all people who missed out, but thats life. Spending money to try and claim you signed up on this contract, or were told this by someone is a waste of both parties time and money.
If the dates are set down, and you missed the boat, then unfortunatley its tough. The system was very good before, its just fair now, not unfair as was commented. Unfair would be to cut the daily rate of pay (better say that quietly, or it might happen)
. As for the FJ boys not getting FP for 6 years, you shouldn't have worked so hard
