[daemon325]

I'm always confused as to why there's such a trend on the internet of romanticizing pilot's judgement and whatever they arbitrarily decide to do when flying a plane. Like videos of some pilot refusing to fly the plane because something feels off. And everyone in the comment praises the pilot and says that whatever maintenance said must be wrong and the pilot's instinct is some sort of all-seeing, all-encompassing entity that can see beyond the puny engineers and mechanics tasked with putting a plane in operating condition.

[alterom]

The reason we have rules like this is, in two words, aviation safety.

Think about this whatever you want. This system works, and the rules were written in blood.

Captain having the ultimate authority is the case on the high seas as well. We have centuries of this being in place.