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To all,
As I listen to the accident re-hash,
I am reminded of the sobriquet applied to Bonanzas: "V-tailed Doctor Killers."
This line has its foundation in the idea that physicians have a God complex that
prevents them from acting with good judgment.
As I read our accident reports as
well as those in Aviation Safety, it becomes quite clear that physicians have no
monopoly on bad judgment. In fact, I would suspect that they actually may have
better judgment than the population as a whole. After all, we (I am one) have to
learn our limits in medicine, and flying has limits. I've made the 180-degree
turn several times.
The nut of the question is this: How
do we teach good judgment? Unfortunately, good judgment comes from experience,
and experience comes from bad judgment. But in flying, the price of bad judgment
is too high. But it doesn't have to be.
I live about 15 miles from SimCom.
They have wonderful simulators for a number of aircraft, including the Malibu.
Their classes are typically a week long, with full days. Most of the time is in
class or in the sim, where a crash hurts your ego but not your life insurance. I
suspect that a few crashes in the sim would develop pretty good judgment, since
the sim allows bad judgment to be rewarded, but cheaply. The airlines seem to
agree.
Perhaps we could get SimCom or some
other similar outfit to program Lancairs into their sims. It shouldn't be all
that difficult. Then we could get a week of intense judgment
transplants.
Comments?
Ted Noel
L-IV-P N540TF
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