This story has been disheartening to anyone who’s ever been a child. We used to think of pilots as but a little less glamorous than astronauts (and astronauts as little lower than gods). Now we learn that piloting an airplane is so boring that either napping through it is commonplace or, worse, that pilots while in flight would rather level up their Warcraft characters than attend to the matter at hand. I wonder if nowadays forty-year-old pilots envy eight-year-old boys instead of the other way around.
Update: As usual, The Atlantic has a discussion.
P.S. I don’t really care about the issue per se; I’m prepared to meet The Maker every time I set foot in a vehicle of any sort.
