At 18:00 26 March 2005, Bb wrote:
It is simply not true that the only people who crash
are inexperienced
'poor pilots' who could be 'weeded out' by any entry
criteria.

I'm with the Professor on this one. The worst thing
we can do in reviewing accidents is assert that the
pilot was knucklehead. This may make us all feel better,
but we will learn very little. Some accidents are
the result of a single catastrophic misjudgement, but
most I've looked at have resulted from a series of
decisions or circumstances that individually seemed
fairly benign, but compounded to create an outcome
that was both unpleasant and inevitable.

Those who don't learn from the past...

9B