I am in awe of the knowledge and interpretation skills here. I think that the key thing to be learned out of all this is to always 'fly the aeroplane', but if you get so little time on the stick these days it may be impossible to keep up your skill. As a glider pilot (don't all laugh) and instructor (now retired) I was lucky, I made 2200 sorties and flew nearly 1000 hrs, every second of it hands on. Solly was a glider pilot too and you can see where that got him. Maybe compulsory gliding needs to added to the training syllabus. For glider pilots every landing is a CFIT.