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Today's flight put me over 300 hours total time without bending anything.
Someone here once wrote that that was a statistical milestone with regards to accidents. Is that true? -- Jeff 'The Wizard of Draws' Bucchino Cartoons with a Touch of Magic http://www.wizardofdraws.com More Cartoons with a Touch of Magic http://www.cartoonclipart.com |
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![]() "Wizard of Draws" wrote: Today's flight put me over 300 hours total time without bending anything. Someone here once wrote that that was a statistical milestone with regards to accidents. Is that true? I dunno. I passed 1,000 hours last year, also reckoned to be some kind of safety milestone. Now, I find my problem is relaxing TOO much. Complacency is dangerous--maybe more dangerous than inexperience. Stay sharp, Jeff. -- Dan C172RG at BFM |
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On Sun, 2 Jul 2006 13:06:44 -0500, "Dan Luke"
wrote in :: Complacency is dangerous--maybe more dangerous than inexperience. |
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"Wizard of Draws" wrote in
message news:C0CD8176.7FC43%jeffbREMOVETHIS@REMOVEALSOwiza rdofdraws.com... Today's flight put me over 300 hours total time without bending anything. Someone here once wrote that that was a statistical milestone with regards to accidents. Is that true? No, not as far as anyone has shown. The legend seems to originate with Paul Craig's book The Killing Zone, which says that most fatalities strike pilots between 50 and 350 flight hours. The problem, though, is that the book makes no attempt to normalize by the number of flight hours per year flown by pilots with various levels of experience. So for all the book really shows, pilots in the "killing zone" may be less safe, more safe, or just as safe (in terms of fatality rate per flight hour) than pilots at other levels of experience. (Several of the book's reader reviews at amazon.com point out this elementary statistical error.) Congratulations on your milestone though! --Gary |
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![]() "Wizard of Draws" wrote Will do. Before this thread goes too far astray, I would like say that my question about relaxing is tongue in cheek. It's always too hazy to relax much around here in the Southeast and as a consequence, I always file IFR. I'm extremely paranoid and I depend on the guys at the scopes to help out. Just don't relax too much. You can never tell when the controller gets distracted and does not notice someone aiming at you, or when someone will be out there flying VFR with a stealth bug-smasher 2000, and no transponder! g -- Jim in NC |
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![]() "Wizard of Draws" wrote: It's always too hazy to relax much around here in the Southeast and as a consequence, I always file IFR. I'm extremely paranoid and I depend on the guys at the scopes to help out. Ditto. One of the best things about using the instrument rating? Better radar service. -- Dan C172RG at BFM |
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Can I relax now?
The moment you "relax", you are a target. It's always too hazy to relax much around here in the Southeast and as a consequence, I always file IFR. I'm extremely paranoid and I depend on the guys at the scopes to help out. Not a good idea. "Depending on others", that is. The help is nice, but never depend on them to separate you from VFR traffic, or traffic that probably shouldn't be VFR but it. ![]() Jose -- The monkey turns the crank and thinks he's making the music. for Email, make the obvious change in the address. |
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![]() Wizard of Draws wrote: Today's flight put me over 300 hours total time without bending anything. Someone here once wrote that that was a statistical milestone with regards to accidents. Is that true? -- Jeff 'The Wizard of Draws' Bucchino Cartoons with a Touch of Magic http://www.wizardofdraws.com More Cartoons with a Touch of Magic http://www.cartoonclipart.com I do not have any statistical data to back this claim, but my observation has been that there is no correlation between accident rates and PIC hours. New pilots compensate for their lack of experience with a greater personal minimums, while pilots with more experience tend to cancel out their advantage with a lower personal mininums. In the end I think they all come out even. However, you can benefit from your experience if you do not lessen your personal minimum as you gain experience. But I have rarely seen this happen. Afterall, the sign of experience is the ability to do things that others unable to. |
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However, you can benefit from your experience if you do not lessen your
personal minimum as you gain experience. Only temporarily. Then you stop gaining experience as you gain hours. Jose -- The monkey turns the crank and thinks he's making the music. for Email, make the obvious change in the address. |
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