On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 07:11:23 -0700, David Kehoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm with you, Chris. After listening to these guys, learning to fly > does seem like a scary proposition. But as the others have suggested, > a healthy amount of fear can be a good thing, and should keep us out > of trouble. It does that at first, but after you've been flying for a while the fear starts to go away -- it's like when you hear horror stories about illegal drugs in grade school, then you go onto high school and see that many of your friends smoke pot and don't immediately run away from home, turn into thieves and prostitutes, and die. In the same way, a pilot will eventually pick up a bit of ice, fly too close to a thunderstorm, fly VFR into IMC, etc., and usually there's no harm done (at least not the first time, and often not for many times after that). That's when you have to take some active steps to learn how to manage risk, rather than just counting on your fear to tell you what's safe. Or, to take another angle, remember how safe a driver you were the first few weeks after getting your license, fresh out of driver's ed, before you decided that speed limits were purely discretionary and driving at night on an icy road wasn't that bad, and ... I just finished working through the King practical risk management course on the Windows box upstairs, and while no one is about to nominate John and Martha for any acting awards, I was very impressed with the material. It might be an even better idea to work through it before you start flight training: http://www.kingschools.com/PRM.asp All the best, David -- http://www.megginson.com/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
