This thread seems to have descended into a stampede for the moral high ground - there are those who wish to throw mud at a named individual, and those who wish to throw mud at the mud throwers. It's got a bit pathetic really. I have to say, I think comments like
4 pages of a public slagging by people who aren't even pilots
are at best naive, or more likely designed to be inflamatory. After all, the vast majority of people using these forums are aircrew of some sort, anddo so behind a username, and I very much doubt that everybody knows who everyone else is or can confidently say what they do for a living.
Aside from the tiresome tirades of Pablos mates vs Pablos critics, there was an opportunity here to discuss the situation in the abstract, which seems to have been lost. A sad reflection on the way this forum has been going - a lot of people with something they feel they have to prove!