About Good Pilots and Bad Pilots

"Jim Macklin" wrote in message
The 121 pilots have a full support staff to help with flight
planning and a crew to bring and serve the coffee. The 135
charter pilot has the best and worst job, gets paid to fly
pretty good airplanes but has to carry the luggage, do all
the flight planning, brew and serve the coffee, and clean
the potty.

Essentially accurate, although you've selected the grandest of 121 for
comparison against the worst of 135 (Pt 121 freighters don't have anyone to
prepare your meals or coffee, and I've flown for excellent Pt 135 airlines
that used canned flight plans and had people to load the luggage, even on
planes so small they had no coffeemaker or head). Having done both, I can
see this, but others may be misled. The overarching point is that your
earlier comments were unconnected. In my earlier post, I acknowledged that
my good dose of good luck had a lot to do with "...professional airline
maintenance staff and required routine maintenance...", to which you replied
with cautions about owners not allowing mechanics to fix things due to
expense, etc., etc. These things can and do occur among the amateurs and
the lower order of commercial operators, but I think my post was pretty
clear in that I was referring to the airline environment.