Do yourself a favour, get on the pensions calculator and have a look at what the offer looks like for your average mate currently on the OCU. Then consider no fly pay till past OCU, the effect this has on pay progression. The salary and offer for existing mates is a joke; there are plenty who want fast jet, but for a man, I can't see why any young, motivated intelligent pilot would want to serve past their initial return of service. 12 years fighting pointless wars have seen to that.
I don't know many 1st tourists currently approaching tourex who intend to stay past their return of service.
It's not as if the loss of 100% fp will make much difference, it accounts for **** all of their pay.
Those with grandfather rights to afps can sit in ivory towers. We are truly headed for a manning disaster if things pick up firmly in 2015.
Last edited by VinRouge; 17th Sep 2013 at 19:20.