Posted for "terrence o'neill"
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troneill@charter.net>:
Another
2 cents worth: 80% of my pre-flight class had never been in a plane
before. I asked them myself. We soloed in SNJs ... 600HP, retract w/
power-push hydraulic gear, CS prop, and in months were alll kinds of
emergen
cy landings, un usual attitude recoveries, aerobatics, flying
formation, then
gunnery, then field carrier landing practice before these
kids dropped their
SNJs onto the USS Monterrey six times, out in the
Gulf.
Don't underrate our ability to rise to a challenge.
I think --
stick 'em right into a Cirrus, with a Cirrus-rated instructor, and
they'll
be fine. But not with a Cessna 152 instructor.
Other
opinions?
Terrence
L235/320 N211AL