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Online behavior is often not very indicative of how we'd all act in person. It is all too easy to make pratts of ourselves behind the veil of anonymity. However, you are correct that there is no place for remarks such as i made earlier, and for that i do apologize. Raven, what i should have said is that i do have the upmost respect for your accomplishments, and in the cockpit i'd not question your contribution. However, on PPrune you can't substitute your seniority in place of an argument.
This whole argument is a bit off track, and i'll stop now as instead of making a point, i'm only making enemies.
In closing, i don't think the i-cadets are to blame for lowering the T&C's. That has already happened once before, and it'll probably happen again further down the track (look at how bad regional pilots in the States have it). As for the lowering of standards, i guess we'll find out what effects that'll have in the long run.