"Journeyman" wrote in message
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In article et, Dudley
Henriques wrote:

I like a habit pattern in a pilot that causes him/her to come off a
perfectly executed flight thinking about how he could have made it
better.

Are you suggesting even a remote possibility of a perfectly executed
flight?

I think of it like a law of thermodynamics. You may in theory be
able to get close, but perfect ain't ever gonna happen.

No. I'm not suggesting that at all. A "perfectly executed flight" to a
pilot should be a relative term that applies to a flight executed
successfully with no specific issues and in no way implies a literal meaning
for the word "perfect".
You could, if you wanted to do so, make an argument for the literal meaning
of the word "perfect", but I believe it's fairly obvious what was meant
here, so why push for that?
Naturally no flight will literally be "perfect". That's the reason you
should, as I have already said, make a self evaluation after each flight
seeking ways to make the next flight better. If there was no better, there
would be no need for self evaluation.
Just to be clear I'll restate what I said so that there is no
misunderstanding as to what I am saying.
Although reaching "literal" perfection as a pilot might not be possible, a
pilot should never stop trying to reach perfection, and approach each and
every flight seeking this unattainable goal.
Dudley Henriques