I have a couple of Final salary pensions, and a few people i know have been offered very high CETV's - someone was offered 33 x their final salary as a lump sum (A rule of thumb is 20x) He put that into a drawdown. You can request CETV's annually.
With pensions its good to have a mixed portfolio and take advice from multiple sources. The "issue" i have is i want to stop when im 58/59. My pension should be decent enough at retirement age, its that 8/9 year gap between i now need to focus on.