28 Nov 97 12:42, Jim Sanders wrote to Karl Schneider:
 >>  JS> If he was so experienced, why was he flying with a suspended
 >>  JS> medical.  That makes him a "scoff-Law" in my opinion.
 >>
 >> I don't know the details of that incident, but the status of a medical
 >> has absolutely nothing to do with experience.
 JS>  The experience is:  If you do not have a valid medical, you
 JS>  are grounded until you get one. That is the EXPERIENCE part.
 JS>  He knew this but did not obey the rules... We might not
 JS>  AGREE with rules or regulations, but we must obey them.
 JS>  Or get them changed by LEGAL means...
I hate to disagree with you, but I'm going to do so on this one.  My 
dictionary
defines "experience" in several ways, one of which is:
       "a.  Activity that includes training and personal participation.
        b.  The period of such activity.
        c.  Knowledge, skill, or practice resulting from this activity."
By this definition, anybody who has X hundred or thousand hours of time spent
piloting aircraft is defined as being experienced in piloting aircraft.  The
fact that he may ignored what he is told, or fail to correctly fill out
necessary forms, or exceed physical standards of height or weight, or
repeatedly take unauthorized shortcuts does not make him any the less
experienced.  Being a scofflaw may make him somebody with whom you'd prefer 
not
to spend any time aloft, but all that makes him is an experienced pilot who 
is 
a scofflaw.
Hal
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