Posted for "terrence o'neill" <troneill@charter.net>:

Another 2 cents worth: 80% of my pre-flight class had never been in a plane
before. I asked them myself. We soloed in SNJs ... 600HP, retract w/
power-push hydraulic gear, CS prop, and in months were alll kinds of emergen
cy landings, un usual attitude recoveries, aerobatics, flying formation, then
gunnery, then field carrier landing practice before these kids dropped their
SNJs onto the USS Monterrey six times, out in the Gulf.
Don't underrate our ability to rise to a challenge.
I think -- stick 'em right into a Cirrus, with a Cirrus-rated instructor, and
they'll be fine. But not with a Cessna 152 instructor.
Other opinions?

Terrence
L235/320 N211AL