Also, it does not take any special brains or talent to fly an aircraft, most anyone can do it. But we do learn other things along with it. I am quite sure 95% of the posters on here could do it just fine.
When I got my first airline interview way back when, the Chief Pilot told me after offering a me a job. 'Don't give me any <deleted>, I can teach a monkey to do your job! He was right. Look who is flying aircraft around these days.
These days its way easier as we had all those not so accurate steam gauges as they are called now. Aircraft now are hardly any different than driving a computer with wings.