Sometimes we stretch the regulations, or worse, common sense. Some examples include VFR weather minimums (scud running), night currency, or even logging.
Don’t get me wrong; I’m not advocating that. But who among us hasn’t occasionally stretched the speed limit on a lonely country highway or even a busy urban commute, or committed some equally innocent-seeming infraction of the FARs we generally try to follow? We’re human; it happens to us all, even though our self-image might say otherwise. Ask pilots featured in this issue’s annual “Stupid Pilot Tricks;” most probably didn’t see anything wrong until, well, it went way wrong.
