Are your instructors all dead........?
Had an unpleasant wake-up call this last two weeks. Did my PPL back in 2002 in the Netherlands and the States and was back in NL for my FAA medical. Enquired after my two former Dutch instructors - the first died tragically when his PA-28 hit a hillside in Germany in IFC with two recreational pilots on-board. Second suffered chest pains while flying circuits with a student, got the aircraft down OK, but was pronounced DOA at the hospital. Then discovered this week that my former US seaplane instructor died in a mid-air collision in 2006.
Despite my own occassional efforts to shorten their time on this planet (stalling at 200' AGL on a go-around springs to mind) a 100% loss rate in 6 years for instructors in their 30s/early-40s is a real shocker. Statistically this should just not happen. Anyone ever seen any data on exactly how risky the profession is?
RIP