Peace---

Every pilot flies around with enough explosives to do him in.

Even 60 or so gallons of gasoline will ruin your whole day.

But that's not what makes you crazy. Us pilots mostly realize
that bored is worse than dead (see Candide). Until we do, we're
really crappy pilots. Tentative, indecisive, timid.

No, what gets the airline pilots is the insane life--- strange
hours, odd sleep patterns, time changes, away from home, resulting
broken marriages. Then odd job pressures on top of it--- corporate
BS, interpersonal politics. On top of it the instability of the
industry PLUS you have to quit at age 60.

And just when you think you know your job, you have 12 inches
of manuals to memorize.

Then try and keep your BP and other health factors inside that
of the average 30-year old--- permanently.

I know a lot of 'em, count 'em as among my friends.

But I fully understand why it would put many people around
the bend.

Far as I'm concerned, they earn every penny of what they make.