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Steve said,
Some of decisions that lead to accidents are
really hard to explain.
There's a section in Rich Stowell's latest spin
draining book that explains the physiology of stupidity under high-adrenaline
conditions. Basically you lose your ability to reason first, followed by
poor recognition of what your arms and legs are really doing, followed by loss
of good motor control.
This is not the whole problem but I believe it's a
lot of the problem. As far as I can see, realistic emergency
training can do two things for this: 1) program in a response that doesn't
actually require thinking. 2) lower your adrenaline level under a given
set of circumstances. I think training that merely gets you to the
point that you can repeat the right response on the ground is sorely lacking in
these aspects.
Sim training, IMO even non-motion sim,
with a very good visual display, could be a huge help. (seriously)
unusual attitude training in another plane also helps. not so much because
you have any hope of e.g. getting a IVP out of a spin but because of
(2).
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