Piloting is serious business. There shouldn't be any casual pilots.

True enough, but misses the point. I was being more metaphorical than
anything, but the truth is that it is harder (requires more training,
more alertness, more attention) to fly a fighter mission in hostile
terretory in an F-111 than it does to fly in nice weather from somewhere
to somewhere near in a 172.

It therefore, of necessity, takes =less= of the "right stuff" to do the
aforementioned 172 trip.

A fatal accident can still kill you in either case. But the likelyhood
of carelessness causing a fatal accident is higher in the former case.

This is why most pilots never qualify for that, and most pilots do
qualify for the blue sky rating.

Jose
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