Originally Posted by wirbelsturm
In many respects we have become the victims of our own success in making our job look easy
And that hits the nail bang on the head. If an aeroplane smoked in every week we'd still be the steely eyes heroes! However, we are so professional in our work that our profession looks ordinary. I've seen first hand how various departments work at a certain airline and they are basically a rabble compared to our flight deck crews. Embarrassing actually