Agreed, some were more daring than others, but I think most military pilots have had moments when they did not need to be as 'aggressive' on the controls as they actually were. Unfortunately you can't escape the fact that he went too far this time and paid the ultimate price.
Supervision is difficult when you are not operating from a fixed airfield site. You have to trust people, however the lack of experienced bods on squadrons often means that crews are given responsibility much earlier. What can an exec do? It is impossible to 'magic' old sweats out of thin air and tasks do not go away. Imagine telling Gordon that we can't deploy on ops because of experience shortages!!!!! Yeah, that would work...........