Originally Posted by
Golden Bear
Hey jayray, let me guess: you sit in the right seat?
To put it another way: if you think it's that easy, you're not paying attention.
I guess their is a third option. You ARE a captain, just not a very conscientious one.
Yeah, I sit in the right seat. I'm not paying attention? To what? I am pretty good at paying attention to not only the conversation with the person next to me but also monitoring ATC at the same time. Is that what you are referring to? Let me guess, you sit in the right seat and you think you have difficult decisions to make? I'll admit that difficult decisions
may need to be made but they are rare. A private pilot might not realize it and might not be good at it, but the decisions they make are just as difficult as the decisions you make and they are faced with more decisions throughout a flight than a typical airline flight. Tell me the decisions you had to make on your last flight - don't over embellish and reach back 5 years ago to when you lost an engine and had to divert to your second alternate. Did you pick your runway? Your route? Your departure? Your alternate? Your pattern entry? Did you do your W&B? Did you calculate your fuel burn? How many minutes of the flight did you actually fly the airplane? All I am saying is airline flying is as far away from flying an airplane as you can get without sitting in some office flying a drone.