Your obvious is not his, thus your statement belittles him/his question.
Given the number of replies, clearly whilst the yes/no is 'obvious' to most of us - it has produced additional information which is useful.
I, for instance, have never considered that letting my kids fly means that they have a good chance of navigating and landing the aircraft should I be unable to. I was going down the 'fun' route, the safety aspect had not occurred to me.