Easy to take a pop at someone who had the courage to put his name to what he wrote, isn't it, tabby, especially when you're hiding behind a nice anonymous PPRuNe user name?
And even if the speculation is correct that Messrs Peters and Nicholl came to grief after a 'switch pigs' then I wouldn't want to make cheap accusations about them unless I had been in the situation where I had to do the same thing, under the same circumstances.
And after the recent incident, what the RAF blokes in Iraqi hands in '91 looks even more worthy of our sympathy and understanding, I'd have thought.
As to arrogant, I don't claim to know the bloke, but I have spoken to him a few times, and when I did so he seemed like a decent enough cove to me.