"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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[...] Maybe we really aren't as good as we think?

I have always questioned the attitude that pilots are somehow better than
the rest of the world. There are some differences, to be sure...the
certification process eliminates people who are not fully committed. But it
does nothing to eliminate the idiots. It just lets through the fully
committed idiots, just as it lets through the fully committed competents.

Personally, I think that in practically every endeavor, aviation included,
there are more idiots than competents. That's why we need rules. Of
course, the idiots find lots of ways to break the rules too, but without any
rules things would be even worse.

The real problem is when the rule-makers are acting as idiotically as the
idiots the rules are supposed to protect. Then you get something like the
DC ADIZ.

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Pete