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WingsOfun.com BLOG #71: December 22, 2014
WELCOME PILOTS
I want to wish everyone
safe travels over the holiday season and a peaceful Christmas. Happy Holidays.
Special thanks to subscriber and friend Jonathan Miller for putting on the 2nd
Annual Santa Fly-in at the Smith Reynolds Airport (KINT), Winston-Salem, N.C..
Santa gave the reindeer the day off and visited KINT via a very cool Cessna 170
tail-dragger! This is a great way to do something nice for the community while
making a positive impression for aviation.
Our office will be
closed for the week and we will be back after the New Year with informative
podcast, articles and videos. We are looking forward to a great 2015!
“Keeping the fun in flying!"
tom@wingsofun.com
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EPIC EXPERT
PILOT FAIL
By TC FREEMAN
Have you ever seen an expert fail? It is common to see
professional athletes in various sports fail, also known as, “choking or having
a melt-down.”
One of my favorite
sports stories was told by Andre Agassi in his autobiography “Open.” He finally
made it to Wimbledon, a world famous tournament that eluded him for many years.
One of the primary challenges, in addition to the fact he had never played
there, was his difficulty playing on grass courts. Growing up and training in
Las Vegas didn’t give Agassi the opportunity to play on courts other than hard
surface. He had always wanted to win the esteemed Wimbledon despite their
conservative dress and conduct code that didn’t match his renegade wardrobe and
attitude.
He finally got the
chance to play in the prestigious tournament. After a slow start he starting
growing more accustomed to the peculiarities of grass courts. At one point
commentators said he went from a long-shot to a contender to win Wimbledon, but
then his game started to unravel. His game didn’t just unravel but he was
having a professional and personal crisis, a melt-down on all fronts. His team
went on full alert and sought out the best sports psychologist in the world.
Apparently, years of resentment over his father’s overbearing push into
professional tennis came to a head. The result was a domino effect of errors
that built upon each other. After some intensive psychological crisis
management his game was restored and was able to play in the finals.
Pilots don’t
necessarily have the luxury of bringing in a team of support when things
unravel at the wrong time. Experience a crisis in a cockpit from a mistake and
the aircraft can crash. The worst thing that can happen on a tennis court is
someone loses a game. However, there is a lot to learn in sports performance
psychology that can be applied to aviation, particularly in error management.
Making an error in the
cockpit can rattle a pilot to the bone, especially if the pilot is regarded as
a professional and/or expert. Inexperienced pilots can recover from mistakes
easier because relatively small errors are, in a nutshell, expected. Experts
make the task of flying an art, effortlessly managing checklist task while
predicting and accommodate for anomalies. But if you have ever witnessed an
expert make a mistake it can lead to a melt-down causing ripple mistakes. Why
do experts have a harder time recovering from mistakes than inexperienced
pilots?
Experts rarely expect
themselves to make a mistake, so when it does happen it can set off the domino
effect, such as the one the happened to Agassi. Law enforcement officers have high accident
rates when chasing high speed vehicles despite the extensive high-speed driving
training they receive. Studies have concluded the higher stress and adrenaline
levels from the “thrill of the chase” (so to speak) cause officers to make
errors in judgment and have accidents, many of these serious or fatal. It has
been recommended in many of these situations to stop the pursuit in an effort
to defuse the situation to save the lives of the officer, innocent by-standers
and the offender. In many of the cases the offender thinks he or she “shook”
law enforcement to be later picked up a few miles down the road thanks to
communication technology and aerial assets. Many times these skilled officers
don’t realize their multiple mistakes until it is too late.
When mistakes are
made by experts and inexperienced pilots it is good to take a deep breath and
think about the next move. Practice positive mental conditioning by not only
acknowledging mistakes but coming to the realization that it is how we react
that matters.
About the author:
TC Freeman has been flying since he was a teenager and is now an aviation speaker and author. Being employed as an Aviation Safety Specialist for state government, he has a passion for spreading the thrill of flying just for the fun of it via the website, www.WingsOfun.com.
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