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by HeyLaughingBoy
3840 days ago
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I was a Private Pilot student some 20+ years ago and I was surprised to read this so I investigated. It's still 40 hours for PP but 30 for Recreational. That really surprised me. I stopped my training when I had just short of 40 hours. The only required procedure I hadn't completed yet was the night flight time. But no way would I have felt comfortable flying passengers at 30 hours. Hell, it was around that time that I ran into problems both with an engine refusing to shut off on the ground (student using the airplane after me didn't read my notation in the log and broke the throttle cable trying to shut the engine off), and on another airplane, the engine hesitating when I throttled back up during a stall recovery. Minor details, but it's coming across stuff like this and learning to deal with it that makes the extra flying hours valuable. Like the GP, I'm generally against regulation, but I agree that the FAA seems too lax in this case. |
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Are there other fields where you're very familiar with where you're still against regulation? It seems odd to me that you're for regulation in a field where you recognize the reasons for it, but are against it in general, implying areas where you don't have much expertise.
(Reminds me of when someone in Profession X sees the news get stories and facts about their profession wrong all the time, but continues to trust the news on stories about other fields. I forget what that phenomenon is called.)