wrote:
When I had 500 hours in gliders, I understood
just how much I didn't know.

shrug I wasn't suggesting it means one would know all there is to know ... no
matter what number you're at, there's always a huge element of unknown, isn't
there? Still, at 500 hours, unless you were asleep, how much *did* you know?
With some flights being only 10 or 15 minutes (or even less), 500 hours isn't a
fair chunk of experience? And of at least some importance would be how that
time was spaced over x-number of years, wouldn it? Isn't the danger in the
complacent attitude that having reached ANY arbitrary number, that you suddenly
you know more than you don't?