The Very Young and The Very Old

[CodieCW]

"Death comes faster to the very young and the very old."

That was a statement that my flight instructor told me.
It wasn't about chronological age but about flying age.

Fatal small aircraft accidents occur most in very inexperienced
pilots, those with 100 hours or less of flying time, and those
with a very high number of flying hours.

It's easy to see why the inexperienced crash, but why the old
timers?

"It's simple," he explained, "they get careless."

"They've flown so much and it becomes so routine that they get
careless. They forget the routine run-up because it's just
that, routine. They've done it a thousand times before and
nothing was wrong. So they skip it, or they forget to look at
the gauge or they think, 'I'm experienced, I can beat this
weather.'"

The very young and the very old.
Those who don't know and those who think they know it all.

Dangerous conditions.

~A MountainWings Original~