MM4,
as a Naval Officer who is not in reciept of SP I do find the constant whining about having folded into pensions a little tiresome. As I have turned down 2 opportunities to join a SP earning community (through choice) there is no sense of bitterness - indeed SP is an added extra. If you don't like the way it is administered, and/or it's not enough to keep you in, then leave. Don't spend hours going on about it over and over again. There are lots of people carrying out specialised jobs in the Armed Forces who don't get extra money to do it.
I have no doubt that those who proposed AFPS05 did so in good faith, and the world has changed since. To ask for retrospective changes is bizarre and smacks more than a little of greed. I presume those who made the change from '75 to '05 were in search of more money and now that they won't get it they want to go back. Would they do so if '05 remained more profitable? You made a decision on the basis of the information available, live with it. There certainly was no paper-work describing AFPS15 hidden in a drawer to whipped out as soon as you made the decision.
Operational Capability is OC, and I have no doubt the RAF will survive regardless of how many leave. It might not be to your liking, and it might not have the capabilities it has now, but the world will turn; there will always people who want to be Pilots, there will always be old Pilots who just want to fly, and there will always be old Pilots who can't be arsed to leave. At present it seems far too many contributors to this thread believe they are the only answer to RAFs problems. If the grass is greener, go next door.
I appreciate that some are trying to be a good DO in all this, but there is a limit. We can't predict the future, and if your Division are so concerned about their future earnings that this is enough to make them uncommitted to life in the RAF, then I suggest they look for something else more stable.