I posted a very long message about this here:
http://www.subsim.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=49478
This was posted before I saw this topic, but it seems to me, reading this post, that 1x TC is very much the spectacular feat I thought (feared) it might be.
The question, then, I guess, is not whether you play your whole patrol in 1x, but what PERCENTAGE do you play in 1x, and what kinds of rules do you keep in place for yourself so that you don't get to --- how should I say? ---
careless with the TC button.
MQ