Originally Posted by
TPROP4ever
Ok, mabye this is where I miss the bus as far as my thinking a 500 hr pilot can, in the right circumstance, and with the right mentality, gain valuable experiance, in the right seat. Maybe it is a demographic thing, since I was almost 40 and had Military Leadership experiance in my bag of life experiances. I guess mabye there is some validity when the 500hr pilot is 21 when they entered, not knocking them, but you are right with the valuable life experiance argument.
You are not the average 300 wonder with no life experience. What I have gathered as a CFI is that life experience can make up for lack of hours, but only in certain cases.
Experienced Military, LEO, or other professionals where operational risk management is a daily event can readily apply their survival lessons-learned to aviation.
Long-time 9-to-5 professionals such as bankers accountants, salesmen, etc are at a disadvantage...their learned survival skills are all about politics, ladder climbing, and what people think. It does not matter if they do the job right or not, as long as the right people THINK they do. These folks have to learn all the aviation lessons the hard way. They will do really stupid things because they think it will make ATC happy, while totally disregarding basic aeronautical principles and physical laws (ie gravity).
There are of course always exceptions.