That's it... Keep talking about how easy it is and how a monkey can do it. Boy that just really grinds my gears. Why should they pay us anything if we keep spreading that kind of rhetoric? We might have been over glorifying it twenty years ago but no one is today, that's for sure. What glorification?

If it's so easy to operate a modern airliner then what, do you suppose, is all of the education, flight school, hours, certificates, ratings, types, and time building for? I don't know about you but I could have bought a house. You can operate a 172 with less than 40 hours.

Form the right seat, I've exercised CRM and offered plenty of input concerning maintenance items, fuel burn, flight planning, W&B, weather conditions, deviations, in flight abnormals, and in flight emergencies. Not only that but I have to make decisions about how to approach those issues with the PIC. If all you think you're doing over there is turning the packs on and off then you should probably reevaluate what you've chosen to do for a profession. You can call me a-lot of things but don't call me glorified. ...If only that were the case.