Reddit reviews The Killing Zone: How & Why Pilots Die

This is dramatically incorrect. According to The Killing Zone:How and Why Pilots Die, the first 100 hours are actually statistically safer than the next 200 or so hours where complacency begins to sit in. First of all, 40-50 hours are under the care of an instructor and take place during a time when the student is well into "I need to learn" mode. The next 50ish hours seem to, statistically speaking, reflect a safety-mood inertia of sorts from the learning. After 100 and through about 300, however, the curve goes up dramatically as complacency and other killing characteristics come into play.

Please don't push inaccurate statements like "the first 100 hours are the highest risk", it's absolutely unsupported by data and potentially will on ITS OWN contribute to higher mortality as pilots blaze off past 100 hours thinking "Cool, I made it" and start accumulating risk factors.

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The same is true for pilots. I bet there's some underlying theme about inexperienced people make mistakes.

Not an experienced pilot, but for someone like you I'd recommend The Killing Zone if you haven't already read it.

To get an idea of what is possible, look at the WINGS program
https://faasafety.gov/WINGS/pub/learn_more.aspx

You could make a pretty interesting 8-10 hour course based on
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supplemented with selected NTSB accident reports.

I see you have the Student flair but I'm not sure how many hours you have under your belt. Is it safe to assume you have some flying hours? I still haven't attained my PPL but I'm at the end (practising for my check-flight test). You remind me of myself at the beginning of my PPL - I wanted to read as many books as I can.

I saw a similar post like yours long time ago on what books to read - top comment was a CFI who strongly recommended the OP to read over & over your aircraft's operator handbook. I'm passing that same advice to you - I just went for my first IFR flight with my CFI from one airport to another. From take-off to the approach, we constantly had zero visibility. It truly made me appreciate the fact that I spent a lot of time reading and understanding all the instruments & switches of the aircraft. Just being comfortable knowing where the "Pitot Heat" switch was without having to scan for it made flying IFR easier. And when in emergency?? You will be glad you have the procedures memorized.

In addition, I found this book "The Killing Zone" to be very informative. I heard the statistics are questionable but if you put the numbers to the side, you will learn a lot of small & valuable tips that can make every flight of yours safer.