It seems that the old ALM pay scale was only put up to the higher pay band in line wi
I seem to remember it was the other way around. I PVR'd in 1989 after 30 years service because as a Master AEOp I was down-banded to match ALMs. The accountants thought all AEOps had an easy job sat on their backsides in Nimrods so didn't justiy Band 7 pay. As for the other comment 'SH is more of a manual job' as an ex SH crewman I asure you opeating in a rough sea on the end of a winch, wearing a rubber suit etc was a darned sight harder than any humping & dumping I ever did as as a crewman.