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Old March 1st, 2008, 23:49   #14
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Default Re: Balancing experience vs. risk in flight schools

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Originally Posted by minitour View Post
You start by listening to and learning from those with more experience than you have. Then after you have your certificate, you make your own decisions based on that knowledge that has been passed on to you.

From there, you go and scare the living s-blank-eye-tee out of yourself for 250 hours and have those "I'll never do that again" moments, so that when you become a commercial pilot, you don't scare the s-blank-it out of your passengers.

It's a pretty good system.

-mini
I agree. That's what my CFI and I do. And that's what I do to build my proficiency. I go up in conditions that most private pilots wouldn't dare.
I'm not going to be one of those timid regional newhires that are afraid of a storm or a nasty crosswind.
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