I took this to mean a pilot with a Recreational Pilot Certificate.
You obviously meant something else, probably Private/Comm Pilot.

I mean someone who flies primarily for recreation, rather than for a
living. That should have been obvious from the context. Most
recreational pilots with thousands of hours do have advanced ratings.

shooting an ILS to mins at night, in an airplane he only got
into that morning, with no operative directional gyro and no
compass light (thus no heading indication at all) - or some
equivalent mess. Single pilot.

Oh...a true Idiot. So...airline pilots can't fly because they
are unwilling to risk their life like that idiot Private Pilot?

It takes a true idiot to volunteer to do this intentionally. But when
weather is forecast to be VFR but instead does its own thing, and when
equipment that was certified good fails in flight, you do what needs to
be done to land the airplane. Or you die. Most of the 2000 hour guys
I know in the right seat of regional airliners would die. Fortunately
they're flying equipment that is much better maintained, with far less
flexibility, and in a crew environment so it all works out.

Just where do you live?

Figure it out. It's not that hard. The software engineer who wanted
to train with me figured out who and where I was quite easily.

Michael