typical total time and PIC time question

e and PIC time question
From: (G Farris)
Date: 10/14/2004 6:23 PM Eastern Daylight Time
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I think the question came up with the JFK Jr accident as well - Though I
don't
remember the numbers, he must have been at about that level, and some felt
his
dual-to-PIC ratio was high, possibly indicating a lack of confidence.

G Faris

You're perceptive: I'm using that NTSB report as the basis of a small play. It
happens in the JFK Jr case (I've learned since posting the question) that he
had started training toward his PPL once then abandoned the effort because his
mother had begged him to (she had a premination of him crashing in an airplane
he piloted (See C. Anderson's 'The Day John Died). He was piling on a lot of
time the summer he died, but he had broken an ankle in an ultra light crash on
the Vineyard a few months earlier, so nearly all of his flying since then
(nearly all in the Saratoga) was with an instructor aboard. Those several
events explain some of the seemingly excessive dual time. As a matter of
interest, the only family member who would fly with him, and then only
reluctantly, was his wife. Cousins and uncles outright refused.

I appreciate the statistics and observations many of you had made, thank you.

AJW