Icelanta
Couldn't agree more.
It's a very long time since I started flying! A time when Magenta was little more than a character in one of my favourite films!
When faced with attempting something in a jet I have not been trained for nor experienced, I may well take a cautious approach. A risk/benefit analysis! Here I can see one option that carries absolutely no risk. To life, machinery or my career. Against another option that carries an unquantifiable risk. To life, machinery and my career.
And what benefit is there from the second option? Is anyone SERIOUSLY suggesting going flying in these circumstances?
There are old pilots. There are bold pilots. But the only old and bold pilots live here on pprune, and it seems the older they get, the better they were!