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![]() "Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote in message ... Also keep in mind that the guys who flew these back in the 40's while getting shot at usually had less than 2 years experience flying. True. But most of that flying time was training in a phased and regimented course on a full-time basis. In other words, they were -full time- 90 day wonders. A civilian pilot can get his complex, high performance and taildragger ratings at his leisure and without as much persistence and currency as somebody who had a full-time flight instruction every day for three months. In addition, the 90-day wonders who flew Mustangs back in the day were the ones who weren't washed out first. They couldn't just lay out a few thousand dollars and buy themselves a checkout in a P-51. If they weren't skilled and better-than-average pilots by the time they got near a Mustang, they'd have never flown one. -c |
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On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:57:47 -0700, Richard Riley
wrote: On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 08:53:00 -0700, "Gatt" wrote: "Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote in message ... Also keep in mind that the guys who flew these back in the 40's while getting shot at usually had less than 2 years experience flying. True. But most of that flying time was training in a phased and regimented course on a full-time basis. In other words, they were -full time- 90 day wonders. A civilian pilot can get his complex, high performance and taildragger ratings at his leisure and without as much persistence and currency as somebody who had a full-time flight instruction every day for three months. In addition, the 90-day wonders who flew Mustangs back in the day were the ones who weren't washed out first. They couldn't just lay out a few thousand dollars and buy themselves a checkout in a P-51. If they weren't skilled and better-than-average pilots by the time they got near a Mustang, they'd have never flown one. And I've read (but cannot verify) that more WW2 fighters and pilots were lost in accidents than in combat. So even the full time non-wash-out 90 day wonders had their own bad days. One a day in Tampa Bay! Think of it this way. Currently the primary training is done contract. They are expected to earn the PPL in 50 hours if I read correctly. |
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Richard Riley wrote:
On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 03:31:48 -0400, "Roger (K8RI)" wrote: And I've read (but cannot verify) that more WW2 fighters and pilots were lost in accidents than in combat. So even the full time non-wash-out 90 day wonders had their own bad days. One a day in Tampa Bay! Think of it this way. Currently the primary training is done contract. They are expected to earn the PPL in 50 hours if I read correctly. IIRC the national average for ordinary, walk in off the streets ab initio civilian pilot gets his PPL in about 62 hrs. So 50 for an intelligent, motivated, young student who's doing nothing but is certainly possible. It almost always takes less total hours to learn something if you are in "class" 8 hours a day, every day as oppossed to 1 or 2 hours once a week or so. -- Jim Pennino Remove .spam.sux to reply. |
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![]() "Richard Riley" wrote: And I've read (but cannot verify) that more WW2 fighters and pilots were lost in accidents than in combat. A veteran of the battles of Midway and Guadalcanal told me the same thing, and the difference in numbers wasn't small, either. -- Dan T-182T at BFM |
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