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Old 27th May 2017, 00:45
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Why? Because I am smart enough to know that I am stupid enough to miss items.
Yup, me too! Somewhere, there is a fine line between genuinely trying to mentor better than [whatever we're discussing], and seeming to profess personal perfection. I also have not reached the point where I have 20,000 hours flying experience. Maybe it's different when you get there, I don't know. I did know several 20,000+ hour fly everything pilots, who killed themselves missing something. So by that measure, I still have 12,000 hours of opportunity to forget/screw up.

So I'm posting here, to inspire newer pilots to fly better than I did when I was a newer pilot, and, still to avoid posting something which will be thrown back in my face when I finally have that stupid accident (which I hope to prevent forever). I don't take sole responsibility for the many things which I have done which could have resulted in an accident, but did not. I'll share the credit for a safe outcome, if I can figure out who with...

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