On Feb 10, 10:58 am, Nick Olson
wrote:
At 23:24 09 February 2007, Dan G wrote:

You'd do damned well to listen to instructors - they
know better than you do.

Hmmn not always the case. 200 hour instructor with
Silver C

You forget that instructors don't get their ratings by hours alone.
They are trained and examined by far more senior instructors -
instructors with rather more than 200 hours!

Hours does not automatically equal flight safety, especially with non-
professionals. People can fly with bad habits for years and "get away
with it", until one day they don't, just like the pilot at Hus Bos
(and frankly many other gliding "accidents").

Anyone can make a mistake, even experienced comp pilots with thousands
of hours (or an instructor for that matter). But if your basic flying
technique is safe, i.e. what an instructor would do, it's less likely
to end in disaster. I'll grant you though that there is the odd
instructor with the odd bad habit, but they are the minority.

There's a reason instructors get a discount on their insurance
premiums!


Dan