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Old 6th Nov 2004, 11:07
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BeauMan
 
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Interesting response there, Final 3 Greens, seeing as you know little of my history. I'm sure you didn't mean that recently qualified PPL's aren't entitled to voice their opinions.

The point I was making is that changing aircraft types during your 12 hours per year means that your mental workload increases, as you have more than one 'set' of aeroplane characteristics that you have to be conversant with, while at the same time reducing the time spent in each.

Theoretical scenario 1 - a PPL flies one particular Warrior for 12 hours per year.

Theoretical scenario 2 - a PPL flies one particular Warrior for 6 hours per year, and one particular Cub for 6 hours per year.

I struggle to see how the total number of hours the particular PPL holder has logged would make any difference to the salient fact that a) he is logging on average only one hour per two months per type, and b) has two different sets of characteristics that he needs to be conversant with. Please enlighten me.

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