I once undertook a ferry flight that was, well, dumb. Similarly, a type-specific magazine I get recently ran a true-confessions story by a pilot who, in the clarity of hindsight, probably should have missed, not landed. Most of us "accomplished pilots" (as the masthead says) can do far more in an airplane than we should. What does that mean? Well, I mean we probably could, for example, safely fly an airplane that isn't quite "airworthy" or perhaps we could complete an approach to a landing using "abnormal maneuvers" and live to tell (or brag) about it later. But should we? Obviously not, but we often do, anyway. Whyizat? What makes us do all those dumb things? I think the top answers are a tie between our, ahem, "need" to get the job done and simply our own expectations locking our thinking.
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