Maxwell writes:

No, because anyone can make a mistake. It just eliminates the possibility of
some idot like you from teaching himself to fly on MSFS, and then getting
into a real aircraft and killing innocent people because he had no grasp on
his own limitations.

I'm certain that I would be a safer pilot even without a license than some of
the licensed pilots I've encountered. The validity of licensing as a tool for
identifying persons competent in a particularly domain is often exaggerated by
orders of magnitude, and aviation is no exception.

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