On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Stealth Pilot wrote:

dont go overboard on the training most of it is quite simple.

1. if you think you are going to prang you have the wrong attitude to
flying and maintenance. your certified engine has no reason not to
make 2000 hours trouble free if the maintenance is sound. no reason at
all. prevention is far better than experience when it comes to
accidents.

Yes, but "The odds said this shouldn't have happened." makes a pretty
lousy epitaph, I think. We train for engine-failures & forced landings in
PPL training, but by your logic, it's a waste of time.

After all, the vast majority of pilots are going to go an entire flying
lifetime w/o making a forced landing, so why train for it? Sorry, but your
reasoning doesn't hold water, either wrt first aid or forced landing
training...

4. it helps the thinking considerably if you dont panic.

This should be Rule #1, not #4!

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in your flying you'll be dealing with
healthy people.

Sure, but even healthy people trip over things, walk into props or
doorframes, spill hot coffee etc etc. Basic first aid training, even if
all it does is reenforce your rule #4 (Don't Panic!), is useful outside
aircraft emergency situations too.

Brian.