"Richard Russell" wrote in message
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On 2 Jun 2004 20:26:52 -0700, (lowflyer) wrote:

I've always interpreted the "doctor killer" tag as something that
refered generically to someone who has plenty of disposable income but
limited time, interest or motiviation to pusue proper training and to

Well as both a doctor and a CFII I will agree with that... there are good
and bad doctor pilots an the same is true of most other professions.

What I have noticed, however, in doing instruction with pilots who own high
performance airplanes is that one demographic factor which seems to put
pilots at risk is to have the money to fly a high performance airplane but
without a vocational background which requires regular self-study. The
generic prototype would be someone with a limited education who inherited a
lot of money. Sometimes these pilots can be mentored to begin a lifelong
process of reading/learning about aviation, but sometimes it is just foreign
to them and that pilot might do well in a routine flight situation but may
have difficulty working through an unanticipated problem.



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Richard Kaplan, CFII

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