All credit to the man but honestly, if you lose both engines with the ground 3 minutes away, a great big river ahead and you're surrounded by city then what else do you do? Would anyone here have tried to maneuver around to an airfield under these circumstances?
The thing about this whole story was the fact that they were lucky enough to suffer dual engine failure at a place where there was a river to land on, a similar event without the Hudson would have been a disaster even with Mr Sully at the controls I imagine.
To stay on-topic I agree with him, the pilot job is going down the drain and fast. The public isn't prepared to pay for a ticket, the companies aren't prepared to pay a salary and the incoming pilot workforce is fine and dandy with those facts. It spells S for shafted for all of us in the long run.