Lawrence,
"Having spent sometime in the Air Force and in KSA I have a healthy respect for BWOS Air Crew"
Presuming you mean the Royal Air Force, I am at least as equally qualified as you to pass comment here.
I think I can safely deduce from the tone and content of your post that you are not aircrew and quite possibly BWOS Management - if I am mistaken I sincerely apologise for the slander.
If BWOS Management were gifted with the same 20:20 vision you've credited pilots with, then maybe they wouldn't end up in the pickle they so regularly do. If they had the ability to analyse the results of their "management" with the 20:20 hindsight us pilots apparently also have, then maybe they'd learn from their mistakes.
At the end of the day, I wasn't happy, I handed in my notice and moved onto a better place in my life. That advice I have to say is absolutely sound, unfortunately because that is the message being passed to the pilots that is exactly what they are doing - in substantial numbers!!
Min Drag
PS Wasn't Lawrence of Arabia a raving bandit?
