By giving ex thrusters a second chance to get back to basics as JO aircrew, it would bolster the experience level of frontline squadrons and reduce the chance of these valuable individuals being taken away from these positions. Lets face it, most us joined to fly the big green toys....how great to be able to spent your final years back doing the thing you love only this time with a bit more capacity.
Oh yes, totally agree. I would leap at the chance to get back into a cockpit and finish my time doing what I love doing. If I could keep my pay, or covert to the appropriate level of PAS, I would happily stop doing "staff" and return to fill a JO PIC on a flying sqn. Leave the staff tours for the young thrusters and allow the older non-thrusters to return to the cockpit. Gets my vote.
The ES/MS thing has only been around for 2 or 3 years by the way, so it is still bedding in.