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Letter of the Week: A Lack of Recklessness

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Key Takeaways:

  • Safe flying fundamentally relies on a "lack of recklessness," defined as a continuous mindset prioritizing safety and thoroughly considering negative outcomes over perceived rewards or thrills.
  • Recklessness is an attitudinal problem common to all pilots, regardless of gender or experience level, and is identified as the cause of most "on purpose" aircraft crashes due to a lack of concern for negative implications.
  • Cultivating this crucial safe flying attitude requires diligent, continuous effort to eliminate risks, honestly review each flight, and actively apply a "THINK SAFETY" approach to every aviation task.
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The article “Learning to Fly like a Girl” reveals human traits not necessarily gender specific. And “first, fly the airplane” may have little to do with one’s experience level. Each article has everything to do with one’s “mere presence of mind” to have the right flying attitude, all of the time! John King hit the nail on the head about such a flying attitude when he stated he admired (and hoped to emulate) another’s “…lack of recklessness.”

Recklessness: meaning to not think about or have concern for the negative (bad) implications of an outcome of some activity at hand. “Recklessness” is why most “on purpose” aircraft crashes happen.

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