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Jack wrote:
"I have done much instruction
in high performance aircraft and check rides and find that most pilots do not
respect a high performance airplane properly. Respect includes having good
judgment and maintaining a high level of proficiency to fly high performance
aircraft safely."
Jack you are in a perfect position
to expand on your experience for the benefit of all on the LML. Based on
your findings during your checkrides what are the top 10 situations which leads
you to the conclusion that "most pilots do not respect a high performance
airplane properly". In other words can you expand on your comments by
saying "the pilot did A or B or C in a particular situation" and should have
done D or E or F.
For example "respect includes having
good judgment and maintaining a high level of proficiency" What does that
really mean? When a pilot finds himself 200 feet off the departure
end with a sick or dying engine and nose high, what training have you found
that demonstrates the pilot, who "respects a high performance airplane", could
handle that situation. Since we don't have simulators for the LIV,
the next best is to practice in our planes, but practice what. We can
show good judgment in respecting adverse weather, we can practice instrument
approaches to ATP standards, we can take ICC rides every six months, we can fuel
plan, etc, etc, but still kill ourselves in these low, slow situations.
My response is not a critique of yours
but is meant to encourage you to ellaborate on your experience for the benefit
of all.
M
Michaelian
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