Jay Honeck wrote:

...I conclude that I may eliminate many of the "stupid pilot tricks"
from my personal risk assessment.

Can you really? I recall one of your particular Sun-and-Fun return trip
write-ups (perhaps last year) that had a moment that could be classified as
a stupid pilot trick, namely continuing VFR into deteriorating weather and
scud running.

Here it is:
http://tinyurl.com/n3ptz

My point is simply to suggest that no matter the experience, we all have
engaged in some piloting behaviour that could be classified as a "stupid
pilot trick." To suggest that you can eliminate SPTs from your personal
risk assessment is ignoring that which you do seem to still possess in some
small degree.

Instead of admitting that types of accidents can be eliminated from my risk
assessment, I still use them to motivate me not to make them.

--
Peter