By Ken Ibold

Can one of aviation’s most popular mantras be wrong? Proficiency, pilots are told, is the Holy Grail to which all should aspire. Maintain currency. Fly it. Log it. In short, practice makes perfect.

But can it be that the opposite is also true, that after a point experience adds nothing except added exposure to risk and a certain ennui when it comes to addressing vital safety issues that the less experienced take more seriously? Been there, done that. Bring on something new. …