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I have a good friend who was a commercial pilot for years and in his retirement years operated a small town airport. After a minor incident at his airport, he commented that the major cause of private plane accidents were doctors who just received an instrument rating. Doctors often have a superiority complex and think they are experts at everything. In particular I knew one that had a race car as a hobby. It was a slug, while I had a pretty good reputation for making one go fast with minimal $$, it’s almost an art. I could see about three things that would fix the majority of the problems his car had, so when he asked for help, I told him the first two things I’d do to it. He couldn’t accept it and wanted to argue with me about it. Since he was a guy I went to HS with, and knowing that in reality he wasn’t any better student than I was, I told him if he wanted to go fast, do what I told him, or keep doing what you’re doing and look like an idiot. He had too much pride to listen and eventually gave up. The things he had screwed up were also pretty much cost-free like a lot of things that make a car go fast.