I have held back for a while on this thread, but find I no longer can.
Winco, you state;
"Now thereby lies perhaps the biggest problem that we have here. You are 100% correct with that statement, in that if you ever did 'scrub' a mission, your flying career would be over in days, if not hours."
As an ex-MR2 captain I, and no doubt others reading your comments, feel insulted. Moreover, if you are insinuating that on the day of the tragic demise of XV230 the captain, known very well to me, didn't scrub because of his flying career, well, words cannot express my sentiments. Certainly nothing printable here.
I insist that you clarify.