the following is not ironic, sarcastic, or anything else, just plain speaking.
I am a fairly recently qualified PPL and sometimes SLF.
From my humble perspective flying comercial aircraft seems an incredibly complex operation.
The level of understanding and mental agility required to both plan and execute flights safely and punctually seems to me to be enormous.
To say that pilots can't be compared to the proffesions is unbelievable nonsense, I'm in no way nocking GPs
but when they get stuck they refer to a specialist, some weeks later at that, wouldnt fancy that kind of response during an airborn emergency!
I just dont get why anybody reading this forum would seek to be dismisive of what is involved in being a profesional pilot.
So for what little its worth, profesional pilots you have my utmost respect (and that of every other private flyer I have ever talked to)
