Ok guys, let's back down the conversation a bit. There's no need to get your hackles up over this.

A lot of what determines which mode is used is where you live. In Australia a lot of pilots fly Mode 1, simply because that's what everybody else does. That doesn't make them right and that doesn't make them wrong. It's a lot like the British driving on the other side of the road than we do. It's just the way that they do it. Same thing with radio modes.

Ken