Pass-a-Frozo,
what you suggest could be true. However have you considered the complications of calculating who may be leaving soon and still be able to take the Bonus?
for example, this bonus is aimed at the senior QFI's in the SQN's, who would all have in excess of 70 days annual leave in their leave books (because they are the only QFI's in the SQN and picking up all the jobs, due to the other QFI's taking civil employment(cyclic argument)) and most likely have around 3-5 months long service.
I for example could take the bonus today and put in a leave app 2 months from now to walk out the door for the remaining period of my retention time (10 months). I thnk that long service counts towards ROSO time.
I for one welcome the Blood Money, it will keep me and others interested for long enough to see what comes from the pay case. When the pay case comes in I reckon that will be about the time that NVG experiance will be a step into most employers door once they all get NVD operations approval.