The idea that Navy pilots don't crash because they have minds like steel traps is absurd. They have a ton of process and redundancy to reduce human error to a minimum, and they follow tedious checklists religiously. Even private pilots have this rigor.
If you applied the amount of process pilots use to software deployment, you'd improve ops by orders of magnitude.
And they sometimes can't land those planes on the pitching decks at night, and have to redirect or ditch. Source: old man was in Carrier Ops, talked about it constantly.
If you applied the amount of process pilots use to software deployment, you'd improve ops by orders of magnitude.