Nice job to the writer(pilot) of the articles.

Nice to see someone in the media without their head up their .....

Once again: All commercial jets operate with a minimum of two pilots, a captain and a first officer. The latter is known colloquially as the copilot, but he or she is not an apprentice or a helping hand. First officers perform just as many takeoffs and landings as captains do, and are fully qualified to operate the plane in all regimes of flight.

The best paragraph in the articles.