No, that's the kind of attitude that gets other people killed.
Like that arsewipe who released the ropes and dropped three of our
boys from 120 feet.
Granted that certain qualities are required to get the job done
right - visuospatial ability, a certain degree of mechanical
aptitude, situational awareness and reasonably quick reflexes - but
the current state of dependence on avionics is such that the task
of flying a modern combat aircraft was described by Bill Gunston
(himself a pilot) as being like driving a desk.
As for the "superior" part, the Ranger Cadres used to piss
themselves laughing during survival courses for pilots - after
leaving the pilot trainees in the jungle (for one night, mind you),
they would hear these flyboys bawling like babies before they were
even out of earshot. That, I propose, makes them inferior to your
average Ah Beng infantryman.
