Only fly planes you have flown before?

At college one professor used a particular engineering class to weed out students from the engineering program. He intentionally made it so challenging it was considered its own prerequisite.

I found the practice abhorrent even in that context.

Agreed. When my girlfriend was on a pre-med track in college, I distinctly remembered that she graduated with her biology degree knowing the diameter of a mouse hair cell but not knowing what the liver did. She graduated sumna cum laude, but did not have a good systemic understanding of the body at all. And the reason was that premed programs were designed to weed out the kind of people who couldn’t memorize vast quantities of information.

> Only fly planes you have flown before?

Come on. I can hardly make the problem more obvious, but I'll try:

If people did that, nobody would fly any plane ever. You have to fly for the first time at some point.

When there's no simulators or co-pilot seats like for the kit plane in question, you literally have no other way to gain experience.

This is the equivalent of job offers asking for 10 years experience in a technology that's barely a few months old.

Exactly!

I was speaking ironically

As my comment noted, I am not a fan of making something its own prerequisite.

My bad. It appears I'm the one who should've read more carefully.