It's a job.
One that has become highly automated, semi skilled and really not that hard (or important)
Wow compylot, that's very inconsistent with you previous posts
Prestige, wearing a uniform, telling girls what you do for a living, the view!
We provide precise, intelligent and robust applications of the required procedures and when it comes down to it this is what provides the best practice and safest outcome.
As a professional aircrew member my number one responsibility rests with the safe carriage of my fare paying passengers.
It is nothing short of an attack on the professional and moral ethics that we have all strived to achieve through many thousands of hours of hard work, study and sacrifice.
Please don't be too harsh, as pilots we are required to make quick, no nonsense decisions in minimum time. We need to be fast at weighing up the facts and forming a response which can be impulsive at times.
It is called command decision making and is the cornerstone of all effective commercial pilots.
Please Compylot, if your going to troll, at least be consistent!