My apologies to WSOs and other non-pilot aircrew everywhere, when writing my post I was thinking one dimensionally (and that will never do) as it is the P Pilots RuNE. It was near 12pm and I was tired - that's my excuse anyway! Backseaters and other aircrew are just as important as pilots. Personally, I'm interested in anyone's informed comment (as I said on the opening post) and I do appreciate how important a job the Ops and other ground crew guys and girls do.
By the way with regard to the comment about a journo being on here I would be perfectly happy to be denied permission to join PPrune and thus not to be able to post messages as indeed I'm not a pilot. It would be nice to be able to view the forum however as I do find it enjoyable. But I couldn't grumble even if this was not allowed as afterall as I said I'm not a pilot so if the forum mods want to do that would be understandable as that is what this forum was set up for.