-> It all reminds me of GOLF.  It all seems to be a game of
-> concentration and how much of it you use.
Or how much of it you LOSE!
When my guy demonstrated that he was not even a little bit familiar with
how a GA twin operated, I should have turned that old squaw around and
got us back to the barn, but the worse bumfuzzled HE got, the worse I
got!  That's NOT a prosperous situation!  I was in WAY over my head, not
even understandin what I lacked in experience, to say nothing of what a
guy with thousands of hours didn't know.
Apparently what bothered him more than anything was the feeling that he
had of his butt dragging on the ground.  That old shortlegged indian was
scaring him since he was used to sitting up higher in the cockpit on the
ramp than we got on downwind! 
He learned to LOVE the King Air while I never flew it because I was
scared of so MUCH iron around me.  He also loved the PT-6's!  
We did hire another guy a little later that was simply amazing.  He came
with no recommendation at all.  Only had about 300 hours IN AIRPLANES
and flew the dang Aztec like he'd been born in it.  Had ALL the right
reactions!  Great presence of mind, and like you said CONCENTRATION!
Couldn't navigate worth beans, but once we showed him where everything
was, he did great.  Like me, they made him fly umpty-jillion flights in
the right seat for peanuts, but by the time he had his 500 hours IN
twins, he was twice the pilot I ever was.  I liked to fly upside down
too much!  My heart was never really IN smuggling! 
-> same.  He later flew with the Skyblazers (The USAFE Acrobatic Team,
-> painted and looked like the Thunderbirds) that was the team that
-> preformed all over Europe.  He was a decorated Combat Pilot in VN so
-> go figure.
Jim, I like to think that it takes a different thought pattern, or maybe
I mean thought process to fly big iron or little.  Some can fly both.
Maybe those are the pilots who can concentrate on WHATEVER's at hand....
As far as I was concerned, the Aztec, or maybe the Queen Air was just
about all the airplane I could say grace over. We had an Excalibur
conversion that I wanted to fly BAD!  But, I didn't FEEL right in big
airplanes so I didn't fly them competently and of course the boss
wouldn't LET me fly them. But the little hair trigger boogers suited my
temperament much better.  The mistakes might be serious, but they
weren't such BIG mistakes.  Like a C-46 out of control is a LOT of
airplane to gather up!  A Pitts can get ALL over the place, and bite
itself in the butt so quick it'll make you cry, but it seems like
getting it straightened out happens so much quicker too! I 'spect Joe
Norris knows what I'm talking about and can SAY it better too! 
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