Yeah, but I thought those were just the carrier shots and traps. It turns out there's a lot more besides. I often wondered why the instructor pilot kept yammering on about the beauty of experience is that it enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. Now, I know why.G26ster wrote:An aviation career is often described as, "hours and hours of sheer boredom, punctuated by moments of stark terror."JALLEN wrote:
In the ~100,000 minutes I have in my logbook, there were only 6-10 minutes where I thought I was going to die. Flying too close to a thunderstorm, a night, raining, gusting variable quartering tail wind ILS approach and landing, sudden instrument outages, loss of all electrical power, etc.
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- Thu Apr 04, 2013 1:08 pm
- Forum: General Texas CHL Discussion
- Topic: Attack - Calming your nerves
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Re: Attack - Calming your nerves
- Thu Apr 04, 2013 12:51 pm
- Forum: General Texas CHL Discussion
- Topic: Attack - Calming your nerves
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Re: Attack - Calming your nerves
It helps to know what you are going to do.
Pilots eventually encounter a serious problem while flying, engine out, engine problem, weather a lot worse than expected, electrical problems, and more besides.
If you panic, you might as well point the nose at the ground and get it over with. John Kennedy, Jr. is an example of what happens.
When confronted with a situation, your training kicks in, usually, hopefully, and you know what needs to be done to handle it as best you can, and remaining calm is the first order of business. If you don't know what to do, panic is the only remaining response.
In the ~100,000 minutes I have in my logbook, there were only 6-10 minutes where I thought I was going to die. Flying too close to a thunderstorm, a night, raining, gusting variable quartering tail wind ILS approach and landing, sudden instrument outages, loss of all electrical power, etc. I am here to recount these episodes only because of good training. If I had not had training and been confident of that training to remain calm and do what the training had taught, panic would have ensured with certain results.
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.", says Mark twain.
Pilots eventually encounter a serious problem while flying, engine out, engine problem, weather a lot worse than expected, electrical problems, and more besides.
If you panic, you might as well point the nose at the ground and get it over with. John Kennedy, Jr. is an example of what happens.
When confronted with a situation, your training kicks in, usually, hopefully, and you know what needs to be done to handle it as best you can, and remaining calm is the first order of business. If you don't know what to do, panic is the only remaining response.
In the ~100,000 minutes I have in my logbook, there were only 6-10 minutes where I thought I was going to die. Flying too close to a thunderstorm, a night, raining, gusting variable quartering tail wind ILS approach and landing, sudden instrument outages, loss of all electrical power, etc. I am here to recount these episodes only because of good training. If I had not had training and been confident of that training to remain calm and do what the training had taught, panic would have ensured with certain results.
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.", says Mark twain.