![]() Without this, you cannot tell if 100-300 hour pilots are more likely to have an accident (as the author claims), or if there are just more 50-300 hour pilots out there than 300 hour pilots - and so more accidents. What he should have done is normalize the data and look at the accident rate per pilot per hours logged. However, the basic thesis is flawed because he looks at the accident rate as a function of logged hours - the "killing zone" is a peak in the accident rates for pilots with between about 50-300 hours. ![]() There are some good points - some new, some which, like most good points, are fairly obvious but still worth telling. Wondered when someone would mention the Killing Zone. Maybe its, but it seems to address the idea that the first few hundred hours are potentially dangerous, and would presumably qualify for the idea of "low hours" Includes a "Pilot Personality Self-Assessment Exercise" for an individualized survival strategy.Provides guidelines for avoiding, evading, diverting, correcting, and managing dangers.Outlines preventive strategies for flying through the zone alive.Alerts you to the 12 mistakes most likely to kill you.Identifies the time frame in which you are most likely to die.Based on the first in-depth, scientific study of pilot behavior and general aviation flying accidents in more than 20 years, The Killing Zone: Aviation safety specialist Paul Craig discoverer of the killing zone shows you the fatal errors that inexperienced pilots make time after time and gives you tactics to avoid them. Grimly embracing the period from 50 to 350 flight hours a vital time for new pilots to build practical and decision-making skills this deadly zone lays in wait for those who err, killing more pilots than all other periods put together. Then they leave their instructors behind and enter the killing zone. ![]() Most pilots earn their private certificate with 40 to 70 flight hours. I've just ordered a book from Amazon UK, called The Killing Zone Having flown from Biggin Hill to Le Touquet 20 times in the last 6 months will probably make you a pretty good pilot when it comes to filling in and filing flight plans, and landing on big tarmac runways, but won't help you fly into a small grass strip, and vice versa - and that's true whether you have 100hrs or 10,000hrs total time.Īt least, that's the way it seems to work for me - I don't know if everyone else is the same. ![]() I have no doubt that, once I've finished the course and go back to weekend flying once again, my skill level will return to its more normal level.Īs UL730 says, it also depends on the type of flying you do. Right now, I've flown nearly every day for the last week and a half whilst doing my CPL course, and once again I find myself able to handle gusty cross-winds that I wouldn't have even considered flying in two weeks ago. But after just a couple of months of only flying at the weekend, my skills were back to average PPL level. When I returned from two months of hour-building in January 2002, I felt confident that I could handle a PA18, which was what I'd spent most of the two months flying, about as well as I'd ever be able to, despite only having 200hrs total time. Personally, I think that currency is far more important than total time. ![]()
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