as an airline pilot this should not be your frame of mind...waiting for dooms day ???
I can see this is going to be a contentious issue....
When a certain DC10 pilot lost (all?) his hydraulics due to a blown out cargo door, he used skills developed in his own time on his company's simulator to get the aircraft down.
On 737's, for a while at least, pilot's trained for rudder hard-over situations (when a bug was found in the flight control system).
Why shouldn't pilots think/train for doomsday? As a passenger, I think I'd feel a lot safer with a pilot who has run through a number of likely and non-likely scenarios in his head and in the sim prior to pushing the throttles forward.
After all, isn't that why pilots do sim checks and pre-takeoff briefs?