When all else fails, lower your standards.
When you can't find the landing gear, lower your standards
I have to fly to Shanghai tomorrow night so:
* it does not seem like a good time to challenge a pilot with, "how low can you go?"
* in any case, I have yet to meet anyone with standards lower than mine so he can take an 'inch is as good as a mile' approach to navigating us to Shanghai and I can cope
* I am sure the pilots "resume" and "qualifications" will have the same legitimacy as many Foreign Teachers in China
* should he fail to find the landing gear he will discover that nobody can lower their standards faster than I can
PS At least I am not flying with the airline I have was condemned to use last month - Shenzhen Air. The airline mentioned in the report (they whose plane crashed) had just been taken over by Shenzhen air ... and in turn Shenzhen Air was bought out by Air China. Just a thought!.
Anyway, I have been booked on Shanghai Airlines for the first time. Why, I wonder, does an airline of that name have a code of FM? I am starting to worry. Maybe it's like FM radio ... where they live in a caravan and pretend they are a real radio station.
As I am going to the Expo City of China (and the whole world!) I may have to raise my standards somewhat ... at least until the plane is in the air.