Smartest cop I've seen to date. I'll buy you a donut if I ever run into you in the concourse.

Decision making is what only comes with experience. You can't buy it at ERAU, and a jet bridge course? Ha! Forget that. You learn decision making in those times when the stuff hits the fan and you face a challenge. Decision making is not figuring out a hold or landing pattern entry - that carries very little danger, really. It involves decisions with consequences - whether folks live or die - and there's not a lot of time to mull over the options.

scenario: You're cruising at 21,000 feet and picking up ice like crazy. Do you turn on the anti-ice and charge on, climb, descend, or make a 180?

If it's your first time in the ice and you're wigging out at it building up on the windshield wipers, chances are you didn't know how to find a way out while studying the weather package.

Thank God the market forces haven't created a single-pilot RJ.