"Joe Johnson" wrote in message news:2Xkwc.5825

I'm a newly minted PP-ASEL and I'm as scared (though not as eloquent) as
Marco. Are you saying the whole thesis in The Killing Zone is based on
such
an elementary methodological error?

Don't be afraid, just be aware and prepared.

I read a statistic back in the early '90s that said that newly-minuted
private pilots were less at risk than pilots in the 150-hour range, because
their training and discipline was more current and they have flown more
regularly than somebody like me, who logged a couple of hours a year until
just recently. I'm at 150 hrs now, and thankful that I'm in a training
program again because I can see how some of my skills have rusted that,
without IFR training, I would have forgotten about all together. Other than
that I'd probably me more of a danger to myself than I was at 50 hrs.

-c