Are there still incompetent pilots out there?
Short answer yes. I'm not commercial but have flown with pilots who have gone on to fly commercial and I wouldn't have let them fly a kite. It's actually a bit scary. Guys who have zero empathy with the machine and fly by numbers. Aeroplanes talk to you, you either get that or you don't.
Anyway, back to Con-Air who I think should write a book. I would buy it.