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John Halle said,
The sad fact is that lack of training is not
what kills most GA pilots. Lack of judgment is
I think I agree that judgment is the bigger
problem, but I think judgment in the face of realtime inputs
is more difficult, especially when encountered for
the first time, than truisms stated on the ground.
I sometimes wonder if the dead pilots would laugh
at some of the Monday morning quarter-backing
if they could hear it. I wonder what the dead pilots know (now) about what was different than
they thought it
would be and what we could learn from
that. While some dead pilots might be readily identifiable as
in the
bad judgment category I tend to think that many
were just like us. e.g. if you posed the situation
to them in their living room they would likely have
given an answer that led to survival. ...but that
somehow they weren't able to deliver the right
answer in the heat of the moment. IMO training to
defeat the inputs that disrupt good judgment is
generally not done in GA, but could be. e.g. ATD or
full sim scenario-based real-time training would
force you to develop better skills to discriminate useful
vs. bogus inputs to the decision making process.
I think the King
risk management dvd's at least provide
some means of monitoring your decision process and
a way to start thinking about the problem.
I also find the accounts of those who almost lost
it and fess up to be very helpful in helping to recognize when
you are experiencing a pattern of events that needs
a strong and immediate correction. Keep them coming!
Colyn
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