Nick, you've done some stunning replies to queries in the past but this one rates right up there with the best of them. Very many thanks - I can remember (as an ex-squaddie just transferred into the RAF, struggling through training on the Jet Provost) trying to figure out the "more than 100%" thing. I just wish there'd been someone around with the "salary" answer - I'd have understood a whole lot sooner!
PS good of you to give credit to another company's ideas - even if EC cockpits tend not to be designed with pilots in mind!