Bingowings said:
Your opinion seems to be putting every last wing in the air a moment of desperation is silly, indeed sillier than...
See what you just did there? You just assumed that they had more fighters than pilots. It is just your opinion (which is not very logical). And my opinion is that, logically, rebels had pilots in reserve. Picking Luke over them is the silly thing here. Much sillier than picking C3PO.