Sounds like another great way to make a small fortune in aviation to me.

Keep telling yourself that.

Jets are easy until they arn't. The difference between pilots who have spent some time down in the weather building hand and mind skills in lesser aircraft shows when they move to faster equipment. While they can learn in the faster equipment, the crash forum is littered with examples of the cost.

The shame is the ones who don't know, often don't know that they don't know.

Les

My statement OBVIOUSLY is assuming one already has a PPL, IFR and ME. Once you have these...... go buy the Mustang if that's the plane you want. Do the training and fly with a mentor. It's cheaper than buying step up airplanes and training in each one. You will be a better Mustang pilot and have the same number of hours in the end anyways.

The crash forums are littered with crashes of low time pilots crashing jets? This is news to me. Please post a link.

The crash forums are littered with crashes of low time pilots crashing jets? This is news to me. Please post a link.[/quote]

I'm gonna second this one. I can think of a lot of owner-pilot TP crashes in - let's say - the 21st century. Not sure about jets. Thurman Munson doesn't count.

The crash forums are littered with crashes of low time pilots crashing jets? This is news to me. Please post a link.

I can think of a lot of pro-pilot jet and turboprop crashes too.

Let's say you want to go spend the day training with your CFI. You're gonna do 10 missed approaches. Does doing them in an old Aztec make you a better Mustang pilot or does doing them in a Mustang make you a better Mustang pilot?

Only situation I know of that is trained more often in piston planes versus turbines. Slow flight and stalls. How often these come into play for crashes in the jet world, I do not know. This additional experience may improve a jet pilots skills. Not sure, but may.

Tim

Why is training in a twin you will never own better than training in the twin you do own? If your instructor is sitting next to you.... practice slow flight and stalls.

Why is training in a twin you will never own better than training in the twin you do own? If your instructor is sitting next to you.... practice slow flight and stalls.

Only situation I know of that is trained more often in piston planes versus turbines. Slow flight and stalls. How often these come into play for crashes in the jet world, I do not know. This additional experience may improve a jet pilots skills. Not sure, but may.

That's exactly what I'm saying,.

If you know your end game is Mustang. Buy the Mustang and fly with a pilot and do your Simcom etc. It's better training and less expensive than building time in a plane you don't want and eventually ending up in the Mustang.

Buying and selling airplanes and training to fly each airplane is expensive and time consuming.

So you go get a PPL IFR and MEL. That's possible in 150 hours.

Now go buy that Mustang and learn the rest in it. Maybe 100 more hours?

TOTAL recipe for disaster.

There are tons of lessons you can learn in a slower aircraft including weather, aircraft systems, ATC, personal limitations. Just tons of practical experience. Some of those lessons are deadly in faster aircraft.

Almost every incident in the accident forum have to do with overflying your limits.
At 250 hours you don't know your limits.

Having spent more than a couple of hours instructing and checking pilots in everything from 152s, to heavy turboprops and transport jets, I can tell you that 1000 hours in a turboprop is often better experience than 1000 hours in a jet and 1000 hours in a piston twin most often is better than both. I can teach an 11 year old how to make a catIII hud 737 approach in less than an hour however all those intangibles take years.

Les

I never said anything about 100 hours of dual. Maybe it's 200. It's still cheaper..... and better training.