There is s difference between guiding an airliner into a building and taking the full control from takeoff to suicide-crash. If the pilot doesn’t really know what he is doing, he will crash it before he gets off the ground.
Unfortunately many of the pilots went over to the new regime I imagine.
Airbus and Bombardiar it looks like. These will be time bombs for decades.
that would be best case scenario- but I usually go for worst case scenario and pleasantly surprised if best case occurs.
With modern avionics, you really don’t need a pilot in the cockpit. Just someone knowledgeable enough to punch in coordinates. When the 757 and 767 were flight tested back in the 1980s, Boeing had the planes take off, fly, and land by remote control, all to defeat the ALPA insistence that there be flight engineers in the cockpit.