"Dave" wrote

Well spoke. Roger's totally full of **** on this one.

Your opinion. People have, and have, worse.

Actually, I was trying to find out whether he has the perspective of
actually having learned to fly a plane for some reasons valid to the
discussion.

Flying is surprisingly easy. Walking the length of a foot wide board
is quite easy. Put the board between two tall buildings and it
suddenly becomes something different. Then add a couple other tasks
to do as you walk across.

Most aviation accidents are ultimately pilot error but the things that
often kill pilots are not things that you can train for. There is a
saying that applies to this conversation, "You can't teach judgement."
Over and over in aviation accident accounts you see experienced and
proficient pilots killing themselves doing bone head things that they
had probably sagely counseled younger pilots not to do many times.
I'm sure the same think happens on the water although aviation
licensing keeps most (but far from all) of the total yahoo's out of
the air.

The one thing that does make me a bit sympathetic to basic training
requirements for boating is the right of way rules. It would be nice
if everyone out there knew them and I wouldn't have had my one boating
accident (hole on the port side).

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Roger Long