And your contribution to the internet today was?

You sir are an idiot! Read the GP.

Which is a dated idea and stupid. Since well you going to need tanks and jets + the fuel and bullets/missiles for them if you want to take over the government.

Im a New Zealander and i have a firearms licence. Also i currently live in the EU. Despite the claims many EU countries have very lax gun laws. In Austria for example you just need to be over 18. There are plenty of other examples of strict and non strict gun laws and high/low gun crime and much lower mass shootings.

The fact is the problem in America is Americans. Even the sane ones think stand your ground laws are a good idea, or that shooting someone for stealing a stereo is A. OK. Americans are batshit insane.

Screw the rich. It is also my ultimate dream. I intend to live forever, or die trying.

The are airline manufactures. It is their job to *build* aircraft. Not train pilots. There is plenty of recommended training that just isn't done in many airlines. Watch mayday or plane crash investigation or something. Or download the accident reports. They are typically available. I think.

At least learn to google for for crying out loud. And heavy has nothing to do with it. I am specifically talking about the A320. Which is heavy by the standard definitions, but it is not some 1960s 747.

While we need thousands of hours to even apply for an airline. I should, it was what i was training for before a head injury excluded me from a class 1 medial for 2 years. In the EU you do much much less.

oh i do. I am a pilot. No turbine rating or anything. But i have a full instrument rating. Where i am from that means i don't have to be VFR only.

food poisoning doesn't kill you. Unless your like 101 or something. It is your body saving you. Sure it feels like dying. But it's not actually dying. I mean what the hell do you think? modern city food has lower health standards than that open fire in the middle of the rain forrest?

I am a NZer and currently live in the EU. I know several pilots personally. While AU and NZ run a similar progression to the US (with much stricter medicals and stuff), the EU for airline pilots does not. We must start with small planes, then get a instrument ratings, turbine ratings etc. Accumulate quite a few hours before we can even consider than an airline will take us on for big plane rating.

In the EU you do like a uni degree in commercial airlines and 3 years later your rated for the big stuff. Out of the blocks with far far less hours flying that we would have.

Humans are terrible at it. We should have let the machines do this ages ago.

The problem is 2 fold. One as you say it almost never ever happens. Even that "experienced" pilot with thousands of hours under his belt as probably never been in a uncontrolled 45 AOA situation. So all that experience is worth shit. The second is physiology. We tend to refuse to believe reality when the shit hits the fan.

Same things happen in nuclear power plants. Operator, "That can't be right, that would mean we will get a melt down. That simply won't happen on my shift, clearly the instrument is wrong". Pilots do exactly that. For many minutes at a time. till it is far to late.

You have never flown a A320 have you. On a A320. It is real autopilot and does a hell of a lot to fly the plane. It is not some Cessna hold heading thing.

In fact i don't buy the "it is cheaper for a crash". Often a single incident is enough to run an airline out of business for just the reason you described alone.