Michael wrote:

And probably 80% of pilots, too. Look around the airport. Ask people
you know (CFI's excluded - I'll get to them later) how many hours they
have. Betcha 4 out of 5 will have between 50 and 350.

At a MAPA meeting recently (there's another this week in northern NJ; see
midatlanticpilots.com), a speaker was discussing this issue and asked who
was in "the zone". There were probably 50 or 60 people there, and only two
hands were raised. And I was one, and am now out of the zone.

[...]
The numbers that you're citing are pretty meaningless unless you know
the experience level distribution of the active pilots. The entire
killing zone conjecture is more than likely just bad statistics.

I tend to agree that this is most likely, but I've not read the original
claim.

- Andrew