Emergency

Marco Leon wrote:
Therefore the proficiency goal of all pilots should be to know both how to
avoid the situation and how to get out of it. This also has a built-in
verification check in that too much experience in one area means that the
other area probably needs more attention.



There you a a succinct summation of the true goal of the proficient pilot.
The more tools we have to work with, the better the quality of our work.
Avoidance is always best but you better have an excape just in case you blunder
into something.



--
Mortimer Schnerd, RN

VE

Marco Leon wrote:

Therefore the proficiency goal of all pilots should be to know both how to
avoid the situation and how to get out of it. This also has a built-in
verification check in that too much experience in one area means that the
other area probably needs more attention.

Nicely put!

have to disagree, on that one. A proficient pilot never puts himself in a
situation like that, in the first place, ideally.

Yeah, that sounds great - in theory.

The difference between theory and practice is much greater in practice
than it is in theory.

In theory, it may be possible to become a capable, experienced, and
proficient pilot by taking a cautious approach, not making boneheaded
mistakes, and not scaring oneself. But in practice, I've never seen it
happen. In practice, capable and proficient pilots are the ones who
survive their many little crises - usually of their own making, at
least in part.

Michael