wouldent let me quote Jhugz, so here's the copy/paste.
-----"Originally Posted by
mshunter 
#2, saftey pilot time is very valuble. it teaches you how to work as a team in a cockpit enviroment(read "put up with someone who is an idot").
I do have some safety pilot time however it is not at all very valuable. That may be what ATP uses to sucker you in but really it is an absolute waste in a 172. Also CRM isn't practiced because one should be doing all the flying and the radio's while the other is looking outside for other traffic ONLY.
#3, solo in an airplane with an emergency is dangerous. especially when the ink on your cert is wet. so as a confedence builder, too much is a dangerous thing. there is no such thing as an old bold pilot.
It is much more dangerous when there is an emergency with two equal skilled pilots in the airplane. If there is an instructor and a student obviously the instructor will handle the emergency. Two Private pilot's with 100 hrs fighting over the controls instead of dealing with the emergency at hand. Disaster IMHO-----"
LMAO!!!! who is this guy kidding!!!!!:rotfl:. i would rather have a second pilot on board, who can help me in an emergency, than be by myself to manage everything when one engine goes silent. even having someone manage the radios in an emergency is EXTREAMLY helpfull. as far as looking for traffic, havent you ever heard of the "i am going to be PIC of this flight" talk? or are you the guy who when i have that talk with, it goes in one ear and out the other because you are sooooooo much more capabile than i am. you must be that bold pilot everyone warns me about who will never grow old.:rotfl: if you cant figure out who will be PIC before the flight starts, THEN DON'T GO FLY. when i got the call from ATC that traffic was near, i looked up to see, when i was pilot flying. when i was pilot monitor, i was able to work radios, fetch charts, basically do everything
but fly, and still managed to keep my head outside the airplane. besides, if you can't multi task, like work a radio, and look for traffic, you have no place flying an airplane, espically in a single pilot enviroment.
as far as looking for other traffic only, one pilot flies the whole time i guess and just keeps his head down, never looking outside for anything. if you do only flying, and thats all you do, you pick up a habbit. mabey that was the reason that ATP recently had an accident in FL, because that instructor did just that on his x-countries, and got used to not seeing and avoiding, kinda like what you just refrenced:drool:.
BTW, i had an engine go quite in a seminole on a x-country. it was my leg to PM, and the person flying i didn't trust as a pilot------but------ because there was 2 qualified pilots on board, she concentrated on flying, i concentrated on fixing the problem- check fuel psi-0-aux pump on check fuel psi-0- pump off- switch to x-feed/pump on-engine re-starts, fuel psi normal.- elapsed time***15 seconds*** we avoided having to declare an emergency, crisis avetred, everyone lives to see another day. it could have been the difference between a VMC roll/nasty NTSB report which would have read, "low time pilot crashes ATP seminole due to power loss." dosen't that sound like what happens in the big plane cockpits?:crazy: two people working as a team? CRM? i never took the controls, i knew my place. i assisted her through the problem. it kept her calm, and allowed her to concentrate on keeping the airplane under control, while i fixed the problem. could i/she have done ot by herself, sure. did it make life eaiser having a second qualified pilot on board, definatley.
now, go watch some more southpark kido.
