I believe you have misread 16 Blades' post, as what I see there is not a message of extreme arrogance but a posting of fact.
The point is that there is a great deal of difference between the fabulous training that the RAF provided and continues to provide to this day, and the attitude that one is God's gift to aviation.
I cannot see where 16 blades has stated (unlike Lord FH) that he is such. I can only see that he asks for a degree of acknowledgement of the the experience that he brings with him.
The same goes for the wealth of experience that a self-improver who has flown in far more basic aircraft than most other people for a regional, or the cadet who was chosen as one of thousands who applied, and did a rigorous course to get where he is.
Perhaps, rather than putting off all of us who aspire to your esteemed position, you should focus the attention of your wrath on the management who allow a culture such as this to develop. I seriously thought that with the amount of work that has been put into the training system within BA to ensure that CRM and teamwork exist that many of you could be more mature than this, as young airlines such as EasyJet are patently showing you up at your own game.
Point of action - get off PPRuNe, stop whinging, and go and offer to write for the Fleet Newsletters for example.
It might be easy to vent your frustrations here, but why can you not be more constructive and provide articles that nurture the positive culture that I know BA has. So long as you sit here doing nothing, management are going to write more articles and do more stupid things that divide the workforce and chip away at CRM.
If you don't pull together, incidents like the stalled 777 will end up in a smoking hole.
Last edited by Re-Heat; 14th September 2004 at 18:26.