Originally Posted by
rickair7777
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.
Agreed, and some of these arguments here are part of the reason, that even though at this point I may not need it per se, I am actively seeking my CFI through my prior instructor, for the added bonus experiance it will provide, and the opurtunity to give something back on a part time basis. I see it as one more tool of becoming a well rounded pilot. Because I am an ~900's hr wonder so to speak, the 1500 thing does concern me, but in the end if it becomes that, then I will just instruct to 1200, Try some night cargo, if I can find it, and wait till I hit the new magic number....
Unfortunatly thanks in part to my wifes job of selling computer cores to banks to allow them to go with "Green" check free solutions, I wont be able to fly checks for Fligth express out of my hometown.....LOL, I'll deal with her later....