Originally Posted by
Bassman1985
That mil pilots are humans just like us civilians. And even "the best of the best of the best, SIR! With honors!" can make a rookie mistake and write off his airplane in a greasy fireball and barely escape with his life. All that selection process and all that training and then being selected to be a walking recruiting poster and you can still forget to set your altimeter properly and barely live to tell the tale without killing anyone. Get off your high horses.
Put you in a simulator running the same scenario and 99 out of 100 times you'd be a smear on the ground with hundreds of casualties. His ability to assess the situation, make decisions and react after the stuff hit the fan is far greater than yours and he's a better pilot. Human error happens everywhere. That doesn't change the fact that side by side at the end of the day a military trained pilot is a better pilot and a better employee. If it wasn't true the majors wouldn't seek out mil guys and hire them at lower hours. If that burns you up, that's your problem. Sorry you can't accept reality.