Originally Posted by
jan99
Not a flight instructor, but I have a suspicion.
Flying has two important aspects: the procedures and the physics. Not being very intimate with the second can kill you.
My suspicion is that regardless of flight time some pilots, while proficient at the procedures, do not have a good enough model of the physics of flight ingrained and present at all times.
I call it "A Feel For The Airplane" which cannot be achieved without an appreciation of the physics of flight, as you so appropriately pointed out. Of course, I should substitute "aircraft" for "airplane" since it also applies to helicopters and lighter-than-air.
Cheers,
Grog