Hmmm... I have more flying experience than you might think -- but not jets. I think you've missed the point (got carried away with the rhetoric, eh?) that a dead-stick on a big jet is very dangerous. If the world was a tarmac runway it would be no problem. Anyone could do it. But it isn't, and a big jet takes time to stop, and wind-shear is unpredictable. Jolly difficult -- particularly without full control and a lot of luck needed, as well as skill and nerve. Been there.
Don't dis everyone off as uninformed -- read, listen, and discuss -- dis when it is nonsense (plenty of that on the Internet) but put brain in gear before foot in mouth.
