On Sep 9, 9:40 pm, Andrew Sarangan wrote:
On Sep 9, 10:57 am, wrote:



On Sep 8, 9:57 pm, "Roger (K8RI)" wrote:

On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 16:10:21 -0700, Andrew Sarangan

wrote:
Slow flight is a skill. Crosswind landing is a skill. Exposure to long
trips and making difficult decisions under varying weather conditions
is experience. The right combination of skill and experience is what
makes a pilot "mature" and safe.

I agree with that assessment to a point.

It works IF they have the judgmental ability make use of that skill
and experience. I've seen several pilots lose that ability and I've
seen some that never had it and even with over a 100 hours of training
were never going to be safe.

Roger (K8RI)

Yeah. The old saying, "Attitude is Everything" applies here. I have
known pilots with skill and experience that were unsafe. They have too
much of one or more of the fatal attitudes: Machoism, Invincibility,
Anti-Authority, Resignation, or Impulsiveness. All of these things are
present in varying degrees in all of us, and some pilots have one or
more in spades. There's trouble on the way for those folks.
There's a psychological test to determine where we sit on
these things. We use it in our PPL groundschool to try to wake up the
dangerous ones. They need to know that their attitudes can kill them
regardless of skill or knowledge or experience.

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I was not aware that there was a psychological test for this. Can you
give pointers to where I can get more details?

I'll see if I can find it on the 'net somewhere. It
exists as paper here in the office, but I think it's copyrighted. Lots
of folks are interested in this sort of thing (they recognize the
traits) and if I knew where to find it they'd all be pleased.

Dan