Stefan writes:

Are you kidding? With all those garbled communications over AM?

That's only the tip of the iceberg. The skies are mighty crowded
today, and that's my biggest source of worry. The practical logistics
of travelling on commercial flights as a passenger make it a very
unpleasant ordeal nowadays. Flying as a pilot is not very practical,
as it costs thousands of dollars to get a license and thousands of
dollars to fly, and that's only if you are satisfied with little
tin-can private aircraft. If you want to fly multiengine jets, you
need to pony up seven figures as a bare minimum. If you want to fly
military aircraft, you're out of luck unless you started at age 20 and
spent years in the service, and even then it's hard to get into that
position.

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