Gwen
My point is very simple. I have heard that he was good. But instead of joining, because he wanted to do so and he was offered a job, he is commenting everything which he heard from Regional guys in RAME. Everybody who join from Regional are angry because it was better then. But it was BEFORE. maybe because it was better before now does not exist. It is a past. Today reality is RAME whether we like or not. I like a guys with guts, as you said, who joined and fight from inside not with words but with something else. Fighting from outside with a words on forum is nothing.
So I hope that you get my point. Please do not remember old times, does not help go forward as any pilot should. Better times will come, maybe not soon but will come. For younger guys for sure for us old captains maybe not but it was good while it lasts.