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Old 27th Aug 2003, 00:38
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Iron city,
Not that I want to disagree with you, but I do have a couple of points.
Most student pilots don't have significantly more hours than the sylabus hours allocated. At most it would be about 15 more hours in a 200-220 hour course. Any more than that and the student most likely would be chopped.
Miiltary trainers are forgiving but not always. Don't forget that in a 200 hour sylabus the student will only be solo for about 20 hours in that time. Most of the time he would be accompanied by experienced IP who would be there to keep the student out of trouble. The L-39, Hawk T-38 are all capable of 360+Kts at low level and the time to impact is very fast even for a nose a couple of degrees below the horizon.
I guess also it would depend on what you might call an "experienced pilot"--but that would be the subject of another thread.
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