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Dont get all butthurt. I apologise for singling you out.. after all

Of course, i'm not a pilot

making your grasp of the industry heavily shaded by mass media and really bad 80's movies.

I sure as hell wouldn't. Perhaps you just have very low standards.
That's "top notch?" Seriously, blah, blah, blah.

I never said she was top notch. I said all the women I fly with are.
I have not flown with her. In-fact she might be alive if she intervened on the Captians botched stall recovery.
Your inclusion of her sex was a thinly hidden blanket statement about all woman pilots. It is simply not true. She actually had more initial hours then most new-highers. In the CVR transcript it she was expressing that she was glad to experience Ice in copilots position before moving to the captains position. A seat where most pilots experience day to day operations in ice for there first season. A welcome humility to the "cool as a cucumber" guys who think they can handle everything and should be captain already.

You don't like piloting, you don't like the wages, go be a waitress instead. No one forces you to be a pilot, do they?

I LOVE piloting... that doesn't mean the pay is any better\wages any higher or the schedule any less brutal or that I have to be satisfied with the conditions.
The way the seniority and pay works in this industry you need to take the first job you can when you can(low hours low pay) if you want to beat the rat race to higher pay and better lifestyles.

Lower pay means we dont try as hard? nope.. but you lack the ability to attract the best talent and experience and retain the talent you do create. Flying with excellence breads excellence. I think this was a case of two duds that squeezed through the system and Fate being the hunter put them in the same place were higher skill was needed.