On Nov 24, 4:28 pm, " wrote:
On Nov 24, 3:40 am, wrote:

hey, I am a student pilot and I don't need to be handled with kid
gloves.

Yeah,,, The CAP is full of "student pilots".. hence the high death
rate. :(

Wow, again this is very different from the CAP we have here in
California. If I had to guess I'd say the average number of hours for
a CAP mission pilot is about 2000 hours. In California there is very
little reason for student pilots fly since we really don't have
aircraft approved for student use (we are almost all 182's, which CAP
prohibits student instruction in). Besides our planes are so busy it
would be unlikely a commander would approve the use of such by
students. Finally, our dry rates are almost as high as an FBO (I know
some states have CAP aircraft available at reduced rate, we pay about
$80/hr dry here). Gas at CAP airports always seems higher (probably
because they are larger airports), around $5/gal right now.


-Robert