New Angel Flight NE Reqs

Roy Smith wrote in
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In article ,
Judah wrote:

IMHO a TT number doesn't really demonstrate anything anyway. You
could be a Student Pilot with 300 hours TT and never actually be
qualified to fly a plane.

PIC time is a much more relevant number.

You could rack up 100's of hours flying day-vfr over familiar routes
in nice weather and not really gain much experience either.


True, but you'd at least be a licensed pilot. And probably you'd be
qualified to maintain control of an airplane, and to take off and land
safely in day-vfr conditions at familiar airports. Even if you skated by on
navigation techniques, PIC hours have meaning.

I remember the instructor who I used for my IFR training having another
student who had racked up an excessive number of hours (150+ IIRC) into his
primary (VFR) training. I don't think he had even solo'd. He and another
instructor used to discuss how to convince the guy to stop wasting his
money - that he would never be qualified to get his ticket. But the guy
still has 150TT... And they both used to be worried that he would knock on
enough doors to eventually get someone to sign him off and end up killing
himself or worse someone else. It's much less likely that someone of this
caliber would have ANY PIC hours...

Fortunately, Angel Flight also requires an instrument rating, so it is
unlikely that this would be the case with an Angel Flight pilot anyway...