then what do I know as mere SLF who has in the past on many occasions trusted the flight crew to get me from one place to another in one piece while putting their complete and undivided attention to the task in hand while doing it and no doubt will do so again in the future on the civilian airlines...
Do you think civvie crew don't on occasions have and use cameras on the flight deck? It's when you use them/how you use them / stowage that can be an issue (cf. alfred and Megaton's comment.)
If you think
both pilots on your holiday flight are somehow different to RAF ones and always sit bolt upright, manfully/womanfully giving the operation their complete and undivided attention throughout the sector you might be dissapointed!!!
I'll leave the issue of punishment out of this but IMHO the PIC wasn't doing anything that thousands of commercial (and possibly) military pilots have done over the years...the problem was for him on that flight the holes in the cheese lined up.