The frustrating economics of aviation

C J Campbell wrote:

Airplanes continue to be difficult to land, maintain course and
altitude, and navigate.

[....]

They still are monstrously hard to control in flight and
even harder to land. One would think that flying could be
made a lot easier than it is now.

It could be, but at much greater cost and with the required technology
separating your already highly stressed, inadequately motivated,
under-trained, and relatively inexperienced human pilot even further
from a comprehension of, and facility with, the dynamics of flight.

Flying an aircraft is not for everybody and we ought to worry less about
fitting square pegs into round holes for the purpose of achieving
dubious economies of scale for those few who are well suited to the game.

What is the point of trying to make a Citabria handle like an F-16? Each
is already available to the appropriately qualified.


Jack