Ask a pilot to recite Navier-Stokes from memory. They won't even know what you're talking about.
Building a gas turbine engine without training? Forget it.
The only electrical engineering a pilot needs to know is the difference between volts and amps, and what it means when a breaker pops. The EEs who design the avionics are not so fortunate.
Nobody is talking about building the engine lol, you're all making the exact "just program everything in assembly" comment the author was taking the piss out of.
You have probably 80% of people using React that have absolutely no idea how the three main functions in it's API work. That's the equivalent of a 747 captain having no idea what the TOGA button does and only knowing that that's the one you press to do a take off or a go around.
To support your point, having a locked TOGA mode can be extremely dangerous even if the pilots know exactly what it does. The equivalent would be a risk of death if you just once wrote a React component that had an infinite loop in its render function; I would venture a guess that if there was that kind of risk, most programmers would resign in very short order!
Building a gas turbine engine without training? Forget it.
The only electrical engineering a pilot needs to know is the difference between volts and amps, and what it means when a breaker pops. The EEs who design the avionics are not so fortunate.