"..........and heard Great Argument
About it and about, but ever I came
Out by that same Door wherein I went"
These chaps are highly trained and motivated, and they do an important and necessary job, and all honour to them, say I. But they are not "Pilots" (in the sense in which the word has always been understood) by any stretch of the imagination. (Even a Marine Pilot must do his job on the ship's bridge).
By all means let them have a distinguishing badge. But the one chosen deceives, and is intended to deceive.
D.