Flying pay has little to do with recognising your potential and your skills
I think you miss the point. It
is a recognition of skills and potential in that there is obviously a significant requirement to persuade aircrew to stay by paying them a lot more than the basic pay, which patently does not pay them enough.
In other words, when you put their basic pay and flying pay together, the MOD is paying them nothing more nor less than what they have to to employ aircrew. In fact, as we all know, aircrew earn quite a lot less in the military, which they are happy to accept for a period of time because of all the significant benefits which go with working in the services.
So all this talk of flying pay being some sort of priviledge is rubbish in my view.
with a half-hearted approach to the job?
Why do you assume this just because someone has chosen to leave the service? Unfair I would suggest. Why do people assume a massive disloyalty to the service and a 'half-hearted' attitude just because someone has made a choice to move on in their life? For what may be many very valid and honourable reasons. It is the service rules which require someone like this to PVR.