Do you trust your airline pilots?

I tend to trust the pilot more than I trust the airplane really. It's never "I hope the pilot doesn't crash," it's always "I hope the plane doesn't malfunction." I don't travel as much as I did when I was in elementary school (inter-island vacations), but I went to the mainland for the first time recently. Bigger/different planes than the ones they use to travel between Hawaiian islands, I guess. I was not expecting the mechanical noises the plane made when the wheels go in or those wing flap things go up and done. Freaked out in my head and I had to ask the steward what the noises were and he explained it to me politely. After that he kind of checked on me with quick chats because I explained I've never flown longer than an hour and stuff, he made me feel a lot safer/calm about the flight.

Jam it back in, in the dark.