Not long ago an AWweb reader wrote explaining that, as long as he has been flying, he keeps hearing about "natural pilots," sort of Supermen of the air, who can do absolutely fantastic things with an airplane. My correspondent, Rick Grant, wrote, "From the day I started flight training in 1965 through today, during military, arctic, and recreational flying, I have heard about one in a thousand pilots who was a "natural" or "born" to the sky. Instructors are said to instantly identify the naturals from their first hours of training. Casual pilot observers are said to pick them out of the sky just by the way they turn final."
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.avweb.com/features/eye-of-experience-60the-natural-pilot