[quote]ORIGINAL: pgitta


Does anyone else think you'll only be as good a pilot as your DNA will allow you to be?




I think the DNA might have some effect on profiency, but only at the very highest level of performance. Those who rise to the very top of the performance pyramid. I can't think of anyone I know in this hobby who would fall in that catagory. In the "real world" the differences in performance are mainly those who practice more than others and work to a personal standard, not their DNA characteristics. Well, maybe there is such a thing as a DNA characteristic to avoid any risk? I dunno, I'm not a scientist.

In any endeavor, progress comes from outside the "comfort zone". Whether its flying or body building or painting or whatever, there is a level of "comfort" in performance. One can stay in that zone indefinately and get by all right, but progress is curtailed. Another term for being confined to the "comfort zone" is boredom. Sometimes it's just fun to try some thing new or different. Sometimes it's fun to fly better than you did before.

Bottom line: no, I don't think DNA is holding you back.