I beg to differ, mon frere. Try to make a monkey ditch an airplane full of people with all engines out due to bird strikes in a river with a virtually intact airframe and no serious injuries whatsoever. Try to make another monkey to land a fuel-exhausted A330 in a couple of islands in the North Atlantic after gliding for quite a significant amount of time and even circling and getting away with merely some blown tires. Or maybe a monkey could fly an hydraulic failed A300 with a wing on fire and land it with absolutely no damage? The list goes on forever...
The problem is that it takes extraordinary circumstances for you guys to be able to show what a difference you make.
(Apologies for commenting. I am not a professional pilot, but I am an intelligent, professional, hard working young man who decided not to pursue a career in seat A0 beacuse of all the baggage that now comes with the job- quite relevant to the discussion
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