perhaps Priv Pil comments should be analyzed in depth with all respect to his personality.
How many crashes have to do with ignorance and lack of situational awareness, just recently with some very experienced professional pilots? How often have unexperienced pilots crashes because they have just done what they have been told to do or expected to do, or put themselves under pressure because others did something they wanted to do as well?
I remember a great article by an fw airline pilot . He counted all crashes and incidents where the superior judgement by HUMANS and their very individual skills saved their lives and hundreds of others - in most cases based on long experience but thats not everything one needs to be a safe pilot
If pilots (and all other people) are not allowed to trust their individual judgement? I think we, really we altogether as humans, have lost completely.
btw, Super F, if you split between Brits and Europeans please separate the Austrians as well..