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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 |
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e and PIC time question
From: (G Farris) Date: 10/14/2004 6:23 PM Eastern Daylight Time Message-id: 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 |
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AJW wrote:
SInce I took my training longer ago than most of you are alive, I'm confused about current practices. I came across a NTSB report that described a pilot with about 320 hours TT, of which about 75 were as PIC. The pilot was about half way though his flight training for his IRF rating, had a PPL and Class II physical. He was signed off on complex SEL aircraft. My own logbook when I had 320 hours tt showed about 80 hours dual, 260 PIC, but that was back in the late 60s, and by then I had an IFR rating. What about you? When you had about 300 hours, if you were SEL at the time, how much was dual, how much PIC? What's typical today? Well, I'm only at 100 hours right now... going from memory, about 30 or so of that is dual, maybe 40 is PIC/solo, and the remainder is what I called "second pilot" since I didn't know what else to call it... basically, it's time that I spent flying with my dad before I got my tailwheel endorsement (and therefore couldn't log the time as PIC since the airplane was tailwheel). Some of it was him teaching me how to land the plane, and the rest of it was just flying around so I'd get comfortable with the airplane and show him that I could fly it safely. Then, after a year or so of that, his CFI friend went up with me and I got the tailwheel endorsement and a BFR at the same time. |
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