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I am aware that I am treading on dangerous ground here but I fear that you are amalgamating the terms "highly trained" and "highly skilled."
As someone who was involved in Flying Training for 25 years I can assure you that they are not one and the same.!!!!!
The RAF has 4 categories of Pilot Ability which are:
1. Below the Average
2. Average
3. Above the Average
4. Exceptional
Paul Brickhill (in his biography of Douglas Bader) describes a flying test that Bader undertook in 1940 when he was assessed as "Above the Average" which he describes as an RAF euphemsim for a "Natural Pilot".
He then goes on to say that "there is only one higher assessment "Exceptional" which is so rare " as to be almost a myth".
Neither of the Pilots on this aircraft had been assessed at a higher level than that shown at 2 ( Average).