If you’re like me, you subscribe to several aviation-related information sources, of which there are many genres. Some of the ones I pay attention to include brief quizzes plus scenarios designed for us to self-assess how risky a proposed operation might be. An example might be asking if you would take off in a VFR-only airplane under a 2000-foot ceiling with five miles of visibility for a 100-nm flight. Maybe the content offers an option to select a minimum ceiling or visibility that meet your criteria. There’s no “correct” answer to these quizzes; your response supposedly relates to how much risk you’ll accept. If only it was that simple.
A lot of scenario-based training is like this: What would you do in this situation? What if the flight was planned at night, or if there was mountainous terrain along the route? What if…? To me, the only real response is, “It depends.”
