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Posted for "Hamid A. Wasti" <hwasti@starband.net>:
Art Jensen wrote:
However your emphasis on "student" makes me wonder
about the experience of this pilot. Certainly you do
not mean that he/she was a "student" as in student
pilot who may be prone to the type of incident as you
describe it.
I doubt this was pilot with a student certificate. The person giving
instruction is called the "instructor" while the pilot receiving it is called
"student." To me at least, the use of quotes around the word student was
intended to emphasize that point.
It is sad to say, but this pilot's behavior in practice is not much different
than the real life behavior of so many pilots that have suffered engine
failures that led to catastrophic brain failures, that led to a fatal contact
with the ground.
More than piloting skills, we need to learn how to keep out wits about us
when things go wrong. A pilot with mediocre piloting skills who actually uses
those skills will fare much better than a pilot with superior skills who
panics or gets distracted and stops flying the airplane.
Regards,
Hamid
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