Scott
I know you get all antsy when a pilot intimates anything to do with the big picture. Relax, I'm not, I sometimes have moments of clarity and figure out the lone guy ahead of me that I am following is a heavy by you calling it a heavy and receiving turns/headings that I see correlated on the TCAS and appropriate to the overlay of the approach on the MFD. Let me repeat, I don't have the big picture, that's what you get paid for. By the same measure we don't simply sit in the cockpit and not get some small amount of SA by listening to what's going on around us.
"most pilots have no real idea of what the true picture is"
I don't care what the true picture is, simply whom I'm following down the final. From your many posts here I see a pattern of shut up and I'll tell you what you need to know. Sorry, but I'm an active participant in the safe operation of the aircraft. My ass and my passengers, not yours. I don't want to do your job for you, but I also don't apologize for trying to glean as much info as I can. What of the times I have figured out I was behind a heavy, and seated the F/A's and encountered wake? Its little things like this I speak of, not whether I have appropriate separation, not what the guy on the parallel final is doing, etc that's your job. I'm not challenging your authority by what I describe above so quit acting like it.