Comment by bronco21016

>- does a commercial airline pilot need to know every single subsystem in order to do their job?

Haha explain this one to the APDs (aircrew program designee, the people signing off training at airlines) please.

Every airline pilot has their horror stories of being asked how many holes are in the alternate static port of some aircraft they've flown. Or through bolts on the wheel hub, or how many plys of glass on the side cockpit window, or the formula for calculating hydroplane speed, or the formula for calculating straight line distance to the horizon from altitude of X... it just goes on endlessly.

I do agree with your post overall though.