A fair call
Wander00, and exactly correct. But that was then .......
But my point was really that the world has changed - whether you agree or not is not going to change it back! - and my feeling is that the VGS world is still - in some part and in some places - adhering to that culture of bygone days.
When I think of some of the things we did in the regular RAF flying world ......
..... I'm grateful that (more by luck than good judgement probably) I'm now an old pilot, not a bold pilot.
In the old days, the (flying) Sqn Cdr was God, who could just about do what he liked. No longer so .........
[Edited to add: you too are right BBK, but it seems that some posters here believe it would all be fine and dandy if we went back to the good (sic) old days.]