Another Cirrus Down

On 2005-12-13, Bob Moore wrote:
"JohnH" wrote
An unsafe pilot is one who no longer considers him/herself to be a
student.

Well, I sure as hell don't consider myself to still be a student.
Not after 20,000+ flight hours.

Ah yes, just like the airline pilot at our glider club who thought he
didn't need a recurrency check after not flying a glider for a few
months, and nearly wrecked the tug and glider combination...

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Dylan Smith wrote:

Ah yes, just like the airline pilot at our glider club who thought he
didn't need a recurrency check after not flying a glider for a few
months, and nearly wrecked the tug and glider combination...

There are many examples in the NTSB accident reports of fatal accidents
where a five digit hour ATP was PIC.

I don't ever aspire to be that cocky.

--
Peter

Peter R. wrote:
There are many examples in the NTSB accident reports of fatal accidents
where a five digit hour ATP was PIC.

The most important hour in your logbook in the next one.

Hilton