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The ultimate answer to getting the quality level up in the GA pilot
community will in my opinion require a whole new look at the way flight instruction is conducted. ... Dudley Henriques That is a requirement. But there is something else: GA has become so expensive that it takes an extraordinary commitment to attain the higher skill levels and quality that you are writing about. I read somewhere recently that survival and skill depend for the greatest part on experience. I believe that is true -- and it builds on itself. These days it is financially very difficult if not impossible to get the kind of flight experience required to attain and maintain the high skill and confidence just within 30/60 -- let alone beyond it. At least for the average person who is not a professional pilot of some sort. I would like to fly once every two to three days, weather permitting, but at $80 an hour MINIMUM it is just not possible as a renter -- even with a very high paying job. And most aircraft cost more like $100 for that one hour. The only way to get the chance for the experience you guys are talking about (other than being a professional) is to build a plane or possilby share a used plane with another couple of pilots. That would be doable. Rental is just simply out in many parts of the country. Price is THE obstacle to higher quality in GA from my perspective -- especially because many pilots just aren't up to the commitment to homebuild. Because even if you find a really good instructor, after the aerobatics course you still have to fly ... and fly a lot. I hope to push through to a higher level by building something simple first, and then later an aerobatic bipe. In the meantime my club has an 152 Aerobat for rent and I've got Kershner on my desk top. I sneak in the payments under the old lady's nose. |
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