[Chad]

You are misinformed. The FAA alcohol rule is 8 hours, not 24. As for your statement that "it is so easy to fly a plane that even 13 year olds can master it", I'll advise you that when I went thru USN flight school from 1982-84, the wash-out rate (flunk-out rate) was nearly 70%. All students were college graduates, many from the USNA. We even had an MD from the University of Michigan who wanted to eventually become an astronaut, but he did not make it thru.

[takenoprisoner]

As for your statement that "it is so easy to fly a plane that even 13 year olds can master it",

I beg your pardon sir, but they can and do.

[SamAdams76]

I guess I was misinformed on that one. I always understood it was 24 hours, myself. So you can be an airplane pilot and still have beers the night before? Damn! I could have been an airplane pilot after all! That's okay, I would have gotten claustrophobia sitting in those cockpits anyhow.

[Seruzawa]

I'll advise you that when I went thru USN flight school from 1982-84, the wash-out rate (flunk-out rate) was nearly 70%.

Not surprising since the F-14 is such a bitch of a plane with its compressor stalls and all. But the fact is that 13 year olds DO learn to fly planes, just not tempermantal ones.