Sherm has lived and survived in at times hideously challenging foreign worlds of terrain, traffic, weather, poor english, non-precision approaches, night circling in snow etc etc etc and and shared some thousands of those hours with very very inexperienced Cadet trained F/Os. Far more challenging worlds than the worst stuff single pilot IFR OCTA ops get in Australia. The cadets did a good job.
I commend Scam Sniffer and Virginexcess for their posts. A very adequate summing up of the whole issue and very well written. Need to keep the focus. If it ever seems that pilots are trying to justify an industrial goal with an emotive safety argument then all credibility will be lost for good.
Safe Flying
Sherm