Hazardous Attitudes Testing (was Slow Flight)

On Sep 13, 7:28 pm, Dudley Henriques wrote:
Roger (K8RI) wrote:
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:15:35 -0400, Dudley Henriques
wrote:
They really need a test that lets the user make the decision and then
justify it, keeping in mind that what people say on paper is like
asking how many in the room would purchase a new Bonanza if they
lowered the price to $150,000.

Roger (K8RI)

Sounds reasonable to me :-))
--
Dudley Henriques

The test was written by guys who had to attend accident
scenes and try to piece together the causes. This involves research
into the personality of the pilot, his past history, training records,
witnesses to the accident and so on, and the results of such research
usually point to some reasonably accurate picture of the event. They
often find that one or more of these hazardous attitudes contributed
strongly to the decision(s) that led to the accident, so they, in an
effort to encourage the rest of us from letting bad habits kill us,
write this sort of thing to give us a little insight as to what our
weaknesses might be. As an instructor, I often run into students who
display something like an anti-authority attitude, for instance, and
when the test identifies it they disagree with the test. I've been
flying long enough and have lost enough friends to know that if they'd
listened to the gentle (and sometimes not so gentle) hints from other
pilots, they'd still be with us.
A test that would have so many options that we'd find
one that fits perfectly would be cumbersome and would introduce
inaccuracies of some other sort. I prefer to see what this one says
and then watch myself.

Dan

On Sep 15, 4:04 pm, wrote:
On Sep 13, 7:28 pm, Dudley Henriques wrote:

Roger (K8RI) wrote:
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:15:35 -0400, Dudley Henriques
wrote:
They really need a test that lets the user make the decision and then
justify it, keeping in mind that what people say on paper is like
asking how many in the room would purchase a new Bonanza if they
lowered the price to $150,000.

Roger (K8RI)

Sounds reasonable to me :-))
--
Dudley Henriques

The test was written by guys who had to attend accident
scenes and try to piece together the causes. This involves research
into the personality of the pilot, his past history, training records,
witnesses to the accident and so on, and the results of such research
usually point to some reasonably accurate picture of the event. They
often find that one or more of these hazardous attitudes contributed
strongly to the decision(s) that led to the accident, so they, in an
effort to encourage the rest of us from letting bad habits kill us,
write this sort of thing to give us a little insight as to what our
weaknesses might be. As an instructor, I often run into students who
display something like an anti-authority attitude, for instance, and
when the test identifies it they disagree with the test. I've been
flying long enough and have lost enough friends to know that if they'd
listened to the gentle (and sometimes not so gentle) hints from other
pilots, they'd still be with us.
A test that would have so many options that we'd find
one that fits perfectly would be cumbersome and would introduce
inaccuracies of some other sort. I prefer to see what this one says
and then watch myself.

Dan

I should add to that: The test assumes that you made the
mistakes. We all know that we don't fly around making mistakes
constantly, deliberately or otherwise, but occasionally most of us
will do something that we realize afterward was stupid. This test
forces us into situations in which we made hypothetical mistakes, and
asks us why we made them. That's the point: to identify the
attitude that led us to make the erroneous decision. Nobody is
perfect, and all of those attitudes are present in all of us, to some
extent, even if to a very small degree. It's the attitudes that show
up rather high on the scale that should alarm us.

Dan