Discovery Flight today...unexpected results

On Feb 14, 3:04*am, Mxsmanic wrote:
You can practice many activities for a lifetime without an emergency. *When
pilots all start talking about their "inevitable" emergencies, it hardly
sounds reassuring. *No emergency is inevitable, and anyone who expects an
emergency to come along is likely to be gratified by one sooner or later.


You really are doing more harm than good with posts like the above.

gliderguynj wrote:
On Feb 14, 3:04 am, Mxsmanic wrote:
You can practice many activities for a lifetime without an emergency. When
pilots all start talking about their "inevitable" emergencies, it hardly
sounds reassuring. No emergency is inevitable, and anyone who expects an
emergency to come along is likely to be gratified by one sooner or later.


You really are doing more harm than good with posts like the above.



Actually, Mxsmanic's quote here is exactly....and I repeat it again for
complete clarity....EXACTLY the antithesis of the very essence of ALL
flight training, whether you are a pleasure pilot flying every Sunday or
fly the highest performance airplanes in the world daily as a professional.

From the first day you step into an airplane until the last flight you
make as a pilot, EVERY second you spend in the training process (a
process that lasts through your entire tenure in aviation) should be
spent preparing for an emergency that might never happen and usually
doesn't.

Contrary to your fear that Mxsmanic can do harm on these groups, I am
one flight instructor who welcomes him here. It saves people like me
tons of time having someone like this right at our fingertips as a
negative example to bounce from in making the positive points needed to
impress new pilots and encourage them into creating the right attitudes
that transition into a safe flying environment.

Mxsmanic is no problem here. If I die tomorrow, there will be another
good instructor here in a nano-second taking my place doing the same
thing I've been doing here for years.

There will always be people like this character on these newsgroups.
we all know who they are, and we all know how to deal with them.
No sweat at all. In fact, it can get quite entertaining at times.

--
Dudley Henriques

Dudley Henriques writes:

From the first day you step into an airplane until the last flight you
make as a pilot, EVERY second you spend in the training process (a
process that lasts through your entire tenure in aviation) should be
spent preparing for an emergency that might never happen and usually
doesn't.

I said nothing about practicing or preparation.

Mxsmanic wrote:
Dudley Henriques writes:

From the first day you step into an airplane until the last flight you
make as a pilot, EVERY second you spend in the training process (a
process that lasts through your entire tenure in aviation) should be
spent preparing for an emergency that might never happen and usually
doesn't.

I said nothing about practicing or preparation.

You can parse words and phrases all you want, but the fact remains; Your
post, in every sense even remotely related to aviation and flying in
particular, was ridiculous.

--
Dudley Henriques

Dudley Henriques writes:

You can parse words and phrases all you want, but the fact remains; Your
post, in every sense even remotely related to aviation and flying in
particular, was ridiculous.

The fact remains that you put words into my post that were not originally
there.

Expecting an emergency (in the sense of assuming or taking for granted that it
will happen) is a variation on target fixation. In target fixation, if you
look at something, you will tend to steer towards it unconsciously.
Similarly, if you expect emergencies, you will tend to steer towards
situations in which they occur.

Logically, if you truly expect an emergency, you should never leave the ground
in the first place.

This is quite different from being prepared for an emergency.

Mxsmanic wrote in
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Dudley Henriques writes:

You can parse words and phrases all you want, but the fact remains;
Your post, in every sense even remotely related to aviation and
flying in particular, was ridiculous.

The fact remains that you put words into my post that were not
originally there.

Expecting an emergency (in the sense of assuming or taking for granted
that it will happen) is a variation on target fixation.


Nope.

Bertie

Mxsmanic wrote:
Dudley Henriques writes:

You can parse words and phrases all you want, but the fact remains; Your
post, in every sense even remotely related to aviation and flying in
particular, was ridiculous.

The fact remains that you put words into my post that were not originally
there.

Expecting an emergency (in the sense of assuming or taking for granted that it
will happen) is a variation on target fixation. In target fixation, if you
look at something, you will tend to steer towards it unconsciously.
Similarly, if you expect emergencies, you will tend to steer towards
situations in which they occur.

Logically, if you truly expect an emergency, you should never leave the ground
in the first place.

This is quite different from being prepared for an emergency.

Good Grief! :-))

--
Dudley Henriques

Mxsmanic wrote:
Dudley Henriques writes:

You can parse words and phrases all you want, but the fact remains; Your
post, in every sense even remotely related to aviation and flying in
particular, was ridiculous.

The fact remains that you put words into my post that were not originally
there.

Expecting an emergency (in the sense of assuming or taking for granted that it
will happen) is a variation on target fixation. In target fixation, if you
look at something, you will tend to steer towards it unconsciously.
Similarly, if you expect emergencies, you will tend to steer towards
situations in which they occur.

Pilots PREPARE for emergencies, they don't EXPECT emergencies.

Shove your psycho-babble where the sun don't shine.


--
Jim Pennino

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writes:

Pilots PREPARE for emergencies, they don't EXPECT emergencies.

Yes, that was my point.

Mxsmanic wrote in
:

Dudley Henriques writes:

From the first day you step into an airplane until the last flight you
make as a pilot, EVERY second you spend in the training process (a
process that lasts through your entire tenure in aviation) should be
spent preparing for an emergency that might never happen and usually
doesn't.

I said nothing about practicing or preparation.

You're an idiot.


Bertie