This thread has deteriorated into uselessness, between the FlightSim players, SLFs and once-upon-a-pilots who resort to rhetoric to distort points.
I don't trust anybody who doesn't post their certificates and experience, particularly those who condescend to say, "I -could- tell you all about my time as the ace of the base, but I'm too busy to bother."
What this site really could use is a filter to separate the wheat from the goats, if you know what I mean. Like a database of all license numbers and holders, including all the phony Indian ones. But it's too late for that.