SPAD, you are my man!!! You are so correct, and as I have said on other posts before... its 12 years on, and we are out here to help, to help those that need the help. But 12 years ago, I (and we) had nothing, no one helped us, all anyone did that was then employed in an airline in Australia, was to hope daily for our mass demise.
But we went on, and a lot have prospered, and have after so many years become something other than little baby FOs. And this is what our hero freinds at AN seem to miss at times, they may think of ??????, and know that he wasnt a hero, but who cares, because old ?????? was just some stupid F/O.
Trouble is, like the heros keep saying, its 12 years on, and lots of those stupid F/Os (like me) are now vey senior captains in their airline (like me) and sitting on interview panels (like me)