Capvermell
The fact that you think vortex ring is linked to bad weather illustrates very nicely why non-flyers are best advised not to engage in threads such as this. It has nothing to do with ego, and everything to do with credibility - have you ever experienced vortex ring? Do you know how insipid it can be? Do you even know what it is? What are the parameters needed to get into it?
Now, you can take that the wrong way and talk about pilots having ego and the like, or you can just reflect on the fact that aviation is a very complicated business and this forum is full of guys who know it inside out (and i don't include myself in that category) and are much better placed to comment than you.
As for reading books and watching TV programmes, that simply is not enough to make you 'shrewd'. Shrewdness is something you acquire from having been there and done it, not from armchair reading.