Being a PIC is about knowing your limits and the aircrafts and not being pushed outside of those limits by anyone but by also knowing what you and your aircraft are capable of. By pandering to the lowest common denominator we are just going to grind the whole industry to a halt.
Generally a walk through a debris field helps. Knowing the limits of one and the aircraft is admirable, however there is ample evidence to suggest that the 'limits of our ability' are not as high as we thought.
Captain Raffaele Liberti, 47, Alitalia, total flying time of more than 10,000 hours.
His junior FO spoke up, wanted to go around, knew something was wrong. It was.
The hills outside Zurich bought the whole aircraft to a grinding halt.