Kilo Charlie wrote:
Final line is this Marc...you cannot legislate good judgement....period. If
you don't believe it then just go drive around in your car for awhile where
there have already been put into place many laws in an attempt to do so.

It is not the pilots that are conscientious and cautious that are the
problem....no matter what the rules are they will do the right thing. There
will always be those that are poor decision makers in a pinch. I wish that
an instructor somewhere would have pointed this out to them but now that
they have their license they can demonstrate to the world their
inadequacies.

Casey


Even the good ones among us occasionally screw up- sometimes they survive to
tell us about it. No point in name calling - I certainly never want to share
airspace with the guy who has never landed and said something along the lines of
"I did something really unwise there". The person who has never realised he
makes mistakes / exercises poor judgment is the most dangerous person you will
meet. No matter how well he/she flies.

Good judgment often comes from experience brought on by poor judgment -
legislation only guides those who want to listen.

Here a top pilot has effectively told us how he got into a very dangerous
situation - partly because of a rule designed to ensure his safety. We should
learn from it. Bottom line is to keep the pint of blue muck between your ears
on-line. I try to continuously evaluate my decisions to see if they are
deteriorating. If so - why am I getting tired or dehydrated, or not
concentrating. I don't fly contests but I can see how a hard race could get you
into a bad decision making mode - irrespecive of the rules to protect you.