Hatunen writes:

Your point being?

My point being that they often have very little clue.

Please make it relevant to the general subject
and stop focusing your comments on a few fools. The occur in
almost every field of human endeavor.

Most of the posts in the thread are being made by a few fools. Perhaps if they
went away, the thread would be more interesting. But I'm not holding my
breath. Several of the fools find me intimidating and try to bolster their
self-confidence by engaging me.

If that's your only concern...

It's not. There are other reasons to prefer simulation--such as the fact that
I absolutely despise travel, and that's difficult to avoid when flying for
real.

YOU COUNTED SEVERAL HUNDRED YOU-TUBES SHOWING "inexperienced,
stupid pilots"?? You must have a great deal of time on your
hands.

Sometimes I do, yes. And I'm interested in aviation. The stupid pilots fill
page after page on YouTube.

If those YouTube videos were like the video of the pilot
demosntrating a spin that you cited in another post, I am
hazarding a guess that even if you had seen that meny videos you
wouldn't know a reckless maneouver from a non reckless one,
making your opinion about worthless.

Using a non-aerobatic aircraft for aerobatics is always reckless in my book.
Other people have lower safety thresholds.

How about posting maybe a dozen such URLs and we can see for
ourselves what you consider "inexperienced, stupid pilots".

Just look for pilots doing aerobatics in their little Cessnas.

And of course only a fraction of careless and reckless pilots record their
mistakes on video.

Another duh. But what you haven't supported is your claim that
most of the several hundred pilots you've seen in YouTube videos
appear in NTSB reports.

That isn't my claim.

Given your apparent failure to know the
difference between reckless and non-reckless flying I'm dubious.

The pilots in NTSB reports often don't know the difference, but I do.

Not a particularly apt comparison, though. In America, at least,
drivers don't have ot pass much of a test to get licensed so some
real idiots get on the roads. There's a lot more to getting a
pilot's certification.

Actually, not much more, if it's just a PPL. That's why there are so many
stupid pilots, who disproportionately represent those who kill themselves 'and
sometimes others) in airplanes.