UndauntedFlyer
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3 of the Biggest Lies in Aviation
1st LIE: You’ve got to be really good to fly a JET.
2nd LIE: Tailwheel airplanes are DANGEROUS and thus too HARD TO FLY.
3rd LIE: Pilots trained under Part 141 can fly rings around those trained under Part 61.
The above statement and what it suggests is simply untrue. And in fact, for the Commercial Certificate, just the opposite is true.
The Part 61 trained pilot will be more capable simply because he/she has 250-flight hours of experience instead of the Part 141 minimum of only 190-hours. It just makes no sense that a 190-hour pilot (60 less hours) will be equal, everything else being the same. In aviation there is nothing like real (behind the wheel) EXPERIENCE. And at the lower levels (less than 500-hours) experience, more training and more practice mean proportionally more proficiency.
And in final thought, just think how proficient the 141 pilots would be if he/she had 60 more hours of training. More multiengine training to ATP standards, tailwheel training, and some acro training too. From the same school, more training ALWAYS means more PROFICIENCY.
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1st LIE: You’ve got to be really good to fly a JET.
2nd LIE: Tailwheel airplanes are DANGEROUS and thus too HARD TO FLY.
3rd LIE: Pilots trained under Part 141 can fly rings around those trained under Part 61.
The above statement and what it suggests is simply untrue. And in fact, for the Commercial Certificate, just the opposite is true.
The Part 61 trained pilot will be more capable simply because he/she has 250-flight hours of experience instead of the Part 141 minimum of only 190-hours. It just makes no sense that a 190-hour pilot (60 less hours) will be equal, everything else being the same. In aviation there is nothing like real (behind the wheel) EXPERIENCE. And at the lower levels (less than 500-hours) experience, more training and more practice mean proportionally more proficiency.
And in final thought, just think how proficient the 141 pilots would be if he/she had 60 more hours of training. More multiengine training to ATP standards, tailwheel training, and some acro training too. From the same school, more training ALWAYS means more PROFICIENCY.
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