Originally Posted by Brendan

Nice analogy! people don't seem to get that flying is more than stick and rudder skills and greasing landings. Yes, you can teach a 200 hour pilot to memorize flows and emergency memory items. Can you teach judgment and decision making?

Also, the most dangerous pilots are those with 50 hours, 500 hours, and 10,000 hours. I had an instructor tell me that just after I got my Private and it has stuck with me since. The overconfidence you have at these levels makes you susceptible to invulnerability and error.