mmelugin48
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http://libraryonline.erau.edu/online-full-text/faa-aviation-medicine-reports/AM15-03.pdf
I came across this report today and it piqued my interest as well as left me with a question or two. First it seems to somewhat validate something my dad wrote me when I hit 500 hours flying in Vietnam. He said "The most dangerous thing on this earth is a 500 hour pilot..." I didn't much like that at the time .. but looking back he may have had a point. I was a fairly new aircraft commander and my confidence would have exceeded my competence by several degrees.
My question is, my understanding is they've determined different hour levels for most risk of "severe but not fatal accidents and "fatal" accidents. The peak severe non fatal seems to be around the 800 hour mark while the fatal seems to be around ... 500 hours ...
My college statistics class was 50 years ago ... so I was wondering if a more recent student of statistics could check this out. ( I was at a couple thousand hours total when I passed my PPL Airplane but the landing back at home base with my newly minted temporary may have been the worst of my life ... )
I came across this report today and it piqued my interest as well as left me with a question or two. First it seems to somewhat validate something my dad wrote me when I hit 500 hours flying in Vietnam. He said "The most dangerous thing on this earth is a 500 hour pilot..." I didn't much like that at the time .. but looking back he may have had a point. I was a fairly new aircraft commander and my confidence would have exceeded my competence by several degrees.
My question is, my understanding is they've determined different hour levels for most risk of "severe but not fatal accidents and "fatal" accidents. The peak severe non fatal seems to be around the 800 hour mark while the fatal seems to be around ... 500 hours ...
My college statistics class was 50 years ago ... so I was wondering if a more recent student of statistics could check this out. ( I was at a couple thousand hours total when I passed my PPL Airplane but the landing back at home base with my newly minted temporary may have been the worst of my life ... )
