Guppy with all due respect, you're bending the criteria to the subjectivity of each pilot's tendency to get "a sore arm from bending the stick so long". Shane made me sweat, other top pilots that I'd rank (a little) above him didn't.
There's an absolute quantification of killing, dogfighting ability that would grade pilots on a scale, and even if it's a tedious hair splitting matter, like I said, it's still a reality. How good each "pilot" (
) is, isn't about how easy it is to quantify them as such. If it were though, it would make for a very crowd-pleasing conclusion.