Originally Posted by
high spirits
Compared to when I joined, the MOD is now paying pilots their own 'flying pay' (called by another name) seven years late......, and then bonding them in for 6 years more and treating it as a 'bonus'.
This is a race to the bottom, and nothing good will come of it.
Only partially true; if you stay until you are entitle to your FRI then you will still be over £25k better off under the new system than than what you would have been on the 72 week Fg Trg scheme that I came through on (even for the likes of a FJ guy who spends longer to get post OCU). The new higher rates means the longer you stay, the bigger the difference.
I'll say it again, if you leave early you will be worse off, but then it would be a pretty rubbish retention measure if it paid you more to leave early. Stick around for your FRI and you are quids in!