Posted for "Mark & Lisa" <marknlisa@hometel.com>:

 Listers,
 
 This is an excellent example of grasping a subject within the affective
 learning domain.  Each of us probably has the understanding (some more
 rudimentary than others) of the rules governing, and the physics involved
 in, conducting a high-speed low pass - this is the cognitive learning
 domain, or what you know about a subject.  Most likely, each could conduct
 (some, perhaps more successfully than others) a high-speed low pass - this
 is the psychomotor domain, or what you can do.  Chuck understands it's
 attitude that leads to the decision whether or not to actually do it - this
 is the affective learning domain, or how you value a subject.
 
 It's been said here on this list (and elsewhere) that one cannot teach
 attitude (or values).  I submit that when, in the course of a discussion
 such as this, an individual comes to the conclusion that attitude is the
 very heart of the matter, then learning has occurred!
 
 Based on what I read in Chuck's post, he has internalized an important
 concept in flight safety -- we are all, each of us, masters of our fate.  We
 know the rules; we may even understand the intent of the rule makers.  But
 when we're sitting in the aircraft, exercising our privileges (yes
 privileges, not rights) as "Pilot In Command," we only follow external rules
 that we've internalized, and internal rules that we've made for ourselves.
 
 In reading this thread I've gotten a good refresher on the FAA rules
 regarding low-altitude maneuvering.  How do we get from understanding a rule
 to valuing it?  Just as we each are masters of our fate, we are each master
 of our attitude.  Key to understanding one's attitude is understanding
 "why."
 
 My old Gaffer used to tell me there must always be a reason for what you're
 doing.  If you don't know why you're doing what you're doing, then it's time
 to stop and think about it.  Hand in hand with that sentiment is good ole
 Billy Shakespeare's Polonius instructing Laertes (Hamlet - can't remember
 which scene) with, "This above all else, to thine own self be true."  You
 can't have a meaningful discusion with yourself about why you behave as you
 do unless you're honest...
 
 There are many good reasons I can think of (and probably thousands I can't)
 for disregarding FAA rules.  I believe what the safety proponents on the LML
 are trying to say is for each of us to examine the "why" and ensure that the
 benefits outweigh the risks.
 
 Think clearly, and fly safe,
 
 Mark & Lisa Sletten
 Legacy FG N828LM
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