"Ol Shy & Bashful" wrote:
It really disturbs me that the FAA is constantly dumbing down the pilots
of today and you can see it in the various publications. A lot of
material is deleted that still applies but it is as if someone is
afraid to teach it because it either scares them, or they simply don't
know how to address it except by deletion.

With all due respect...

The statistics computed for the Nall Reports and by the NTSB seem to show
that the GA per-flight-hour accident rate has been generally on a very slow
decline over the last decade or two. So if the FAA is "dumbing down"
pilots, they aren't getting dumb fast enough to stem the decline in
accident rates.

Bottom line is that the declining accident rate doesn't seem to support the
claim of "dumbing down". Or perhaps if it is true then maybe "dumb" pilots
are safer pilots.... ;-)