Originally Posted by
freezingflyboy
Not sure why you think its apples to oranges. Fine, you have two guys, one with 1500 hours flying freight in a Baron in hard IFR and the other with 15,000 hours flying his Baron in clear blue skies. Apples to apples enough for ya?
Let me break this down for you. The "apples" in my illustration was not the airplane. It was the experience. (but I’m the moron)
I'm going to explain something to you that is obviously going to be over your head, but people with brains here will be entertained by your response.
At any given time (say 500 hours), there will exist a Gaussian curve of safety. This curve will distribute at a higher level for people with more hours, meaning the median pilot at 500 hours will be safer than the median pilot at 250 hours.
Just because you can give me anomalies at either end of the curve, it does not discount the law of averages.
Let me break some other news to you: Just because your grandma smoked 2 packs a day and lived to 95 doesn’t mean smoking is perfectly fine for everyone.
And another one: Just because you can drink to a blood alcohol of 0.09 and drive home fine, doesn’t mean we should raise the legal limit for everyone so you can enjoy the extra beer.