"Mike O'Malley" wrote in
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"C J Campbell" wrote in
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"NW_PILOT" wrote in message
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Maybe they get to relaxed and over confident?

It is called "complacency," but I think there is more to it than
that. If you play roulette long enough, sooner or later your number
is going to come
up.


Figure in as well, most 10,000+ hour pilots are flying professionally
at least in some way or another. As such, they're also flying much
more per year than other pilots. This dramatically increases their
exposure to said risk. I guess another way of saying it is, I'm
guessing that the small percentage of 10,000+ hour pilots that are out
there account for way more than 10% if the annual flying hours.





I think there is something else at play here. The 10,000+ hr pilot is
likely an airline pilot. I don't believe airline cockpit skills are
directly transferably to the GA cockpit. The single-pilot factor, lack
of system redundancies, and aircraft performance place a different set
of demands on a GA pilot. This may be an important factor in GA
accidents caused by airline pilots.

If you take the 10,000+ hr pilots, divide the number of accidents by the
number of hours they spend in a GA cockpit, I think we may find their
accident rate to be greater than other GA pilot groups. This is just a
guess. I don't have numbers to prove it.

Another interesting aspect of the Nall report is that student pilots
accounted for fewer accidents even though they accounted for more flying
hours.



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