FNG, True indeed about the ‘apostrophe abuse’. Alas, I spotted it too late and you can’t change thread titles once posted. ‘What is it about us pilots that abuse the apostrophe so?’ I suspect it’s because our aircraft don’t come fitted with them; the MEL is normally limited to exclamations and expletives!!!
On a serious note, it is indeed a shame that
BEagle has gone off to ‘foreign climes’. This is exactly the sort of thread on which his immense experience, knowledge and clear-thinking used to come to the fore.
BH