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Parabellum, no offence intended it was just a play on words. If we got to fly around like maverick and goose doing loops and fly-bys then my wives phrase would maybe be less appropriate. But, we don't. In commercial aviation we take off and land a plane with the assistance of computers and autopilot. I call it fly by numbers, she calls it trained monkey. Granted if things go bad we need to know how to do the basics and unfortunately all the accidents that have happened are because someone in the chain forgot to do the basics. Anyway the point was more about the lack of life and health issues that came from being a pilot more than a slant on the ability of the monkey to do it. Oh and my wife has flown for years on the other side of the door but she has a good idea of what's going on in front. I wouldn't let her do a manual ILS approach but could certainly train her to push the correct buttons to let the thing do it automatically. Monkey see, monkey do!