. If you were to PVR on day 1 of the new pension you would not lose your flying pay.
2. You would not suffer a reduced pension (PVR rate) on your pre 2015 pension as you did not PVR from it!
Agreed on both points - no flying pay to lose on PAS anyhow.
My point is that by taking it, i'm still agreeing to a potential future set of terms that are unknown.
thus by inference should be able to commutate your gratuity as norma
With rumours of taxable gratuity in FAFPS, that could lead to commuting the pension which could then, potentially, be taxed and thus sizeably reduced.
The whole point is that there are just a few too many unknowns and potential scenarios without answer as yet...why not just wait until there are? The manning issues certainly aren't going away.