Originally Posted by
sigep_nm
The industry is what it is, but i dont fly a jet so I am obviously an inferior pilot that never has to deal with cruising at FL400, or shooting an ILS into class B airspace or getting vectored onto the final course at every airport that I go to.
Spoken like someone who has never flown a jet. Contrary to popular belief every approach is not a vector to a fully functioning ILS on a well lit runway. We do plenty of visuals where there is no help from ATC, no published instrument approach, not even so much as a PAPI. We often fly to the same Po Dunk airports that you do, and sometimes we even land after the tower has closed (gasp) with the autopilot off (horror). I'll admit I've never had to fly a full procedure, does flying a procedure turn make you more of a man or something?