interested, you are not a professional pilot. I don't care whether you have 10,000 hours, you have not gone through the hoops the rest of us professional pilots have. Your views, whilst allowed here, are not really relevant once you ceded the moral high ground by taking away some of the thunder of what most of us regard as a 'heroic' act by someone who is not even qualified as a pilot yet never mind the fact that Melanie Oswalt only had 50 hours of instruction in a light single.
You have a persistent habit of nitpicking away at certain threads on PPRuNe and to be perfectly honest you are becoming as irritating as The Guvnor who whilst possibly lurking is not welcome on here anymore. You have made your point and yet you continue to nit-pick away at anyone who commends Melanie Oswalt as being a heroine.
I really don't care how much fast jet time you have. If you were put in a situation with only 50 hours of basic instruction in a light single and had to take over a C421, at night I would put the odds as highly against you recovering to an airport where you walked away from the aircraft. You 'assume' you would have been able to do so after 50 hours but you will never know will you? At least Melanie Oswalt has that knowledge and experience.
So 'interested', give it a rest. You've made your point but by persisting with your pedantic criticism of anyone who feels that Melanie Oswalt deserves tha accolade of a 'heroine' you only make yourself appear to be frustrated that it wasn't you who happened to be in that C421 at the time.. . <img src="rolleyes.gif" border="0">