Hands up the number of older pilots who, while learning to fly, had an instructor distract you and then surreptitiously select the empty tank or fuel off, and then let time take its course. Hands up all the pilots with 15 years or less experience who have had the same practical thing taught by instructors bent on sticking to a performance/outcome-based syllabus. I'll bet there's a big difference in relative numbers.
Last edited by Lodown; 24th Apr 2009 at 15:20.