Sorry!
I realize I came across looking quite smug. I know we've made our mistakes. My point was that there seems to an institutional arrogance at the big airlines, that their way is the best and only way to do things. When something new and different comes along the tendency is to criticize, and what better way to get a pilots goat, than to call him unsafe. The fact is that we all really don't know much about how things are done at other airlines and why.
