Had another longish response typed out but not really worth the effort. If I'm going to write in a national publication, I'm going to get jumped over no matter what I write. Either I'm cheapening the profession by making cruise flight on a good-weather day sound easy, or I'm an arrogant prick with a hero complex by making it sound harder than it is. Either way, there are a lot of egos in this business, and I'm inevitably going to bruise some fragile ones by merely supposing myself an able candidate to write about life as a regional pilot in a major magazine.