Criminal punishment and having to pay his wife is stupid. This pilot would probably never get behind the yoke again anyway, so the revocation is also stupid... but I guess everyone feels better now that he is punished and the FAA can dismiss the systemic problem. The systemic problem is that neither the NTSB nor the FAA seems to care about the human factors. The FAA worries about the FARs and the NTSB worries about the proximate cause, but you never hear about honest human factors. We are so worried about whether there is a discrepancy in our medical certificate that we don't have time to think about how a little over-confidence can get us killed.
