Realignment of AAC Flying Pay Rates (at last)
All change.
A paper has just come out stating that all AAC pilots as of of April 2008 will receive the same rate of flying pay from wings as their RN or RAF counterparts.
All those currently on the 'NCO' rate (?) will be brought into line at that point so all will receive what the AAC currently terms as Ac Comd pay.
Long overdue and well done someone for finally pulling their finger out.
However, no guidance yet seen for those of us hugely disadvantaged by the change/refocusing of policy that meant that mid-rate flying pay kicks in 4 years after a/c comd and not wings (as was the original point of this thread).
Many previous posts provide the detail but yet again having met and served with the RN/RAF counterparts from Shawbury on Ops all over that you realise yet again the amount that means and will continue to mean. Mainly as we are already 2 years behind on mid-rate (then higher rate etc...). Even better is meeting the many officers who have no intention of flying (let alone operationally) in the near future (or indeed since their first flying tour) yet are on or approaching enhanced rates of flying pay.
Not that that is frustrating. At all.
Any updates gratefully received....