From: "Marvin Kaye" <marv@lancaironline.net>
Subject: Re: [LML] Re: Shannon's Accident Summarized
To: lml
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 10:15:50 -0400
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Posted for N301ES <lancair@ustek.com>:

  Dan,
  
  
  That was a lot of finger pointing - and all of it justified.  I get a little
concerned when I read that non-pilots are building a Lancair and then plan to
take their initial training in it.  That is like learning to ride a bicycle by
jumping onto a Harley.  But what concerns me more is that some pilots believe
that they could move from a C-182 into an ES with little transition training.
  If nothing untoward were to happen then the flights would go just fine.  But
if there would be a problem then the pilot who handles it successfully would
be the one who had spent a lot of time with a check pilot until flight in all
regimens became automatic.  A plane with a mechanical problem is a concern.  A
pilot with a fixation on that problem is a disaster.
  
  Robert M. Simon,  ES-P  N301ES  in progress
  (Be gentle, my skin is thinner than Dan's)