"Andy Blackburn" wrote in message
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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

So, we shouldn't weed out anybody because we can't prevent all the accidents
with one set of entry criteria? If just one marginal pilot is counseled to
get more current, it's a win.

Big misjudgments or a bunch of little ones will kill you just as dead. Good
pilots recognize either before they get hurt. It's the guy who thinks that
his misjudgments are " fairly benign" that crashes. What we do isn't that
forgiving.

Bill Daniels