QDM,
I added a light throw-away comment, and I even put a smilie after it! Smug and patronising? Where did that come from?
I daresay I have been at times...but not on this particular thread.
I actually think Pilot's improved. But that's probably because I'm female. Back in the old days, it had a definite old boys' club we're-all-in-this-together-lads sort of flavour, as though women didn't exist in aviation. I can't actually remember any examples, though I do remember the then chairwoman of the BWPA writing a letter pointing out that women do fly - and there was a reason for her doing so. At one point I vowed never to subscribe - but when they accepted the first ever flying article I'd been paid for, I bought a subscription. I think that's called selling out, but there you are. Anyway, that feel in Pilot has changed, and about time too.