Pilots frequently cause accidents through "foolish" or "stupid" decisions, often by ignoring known risks, succumbing to external pressures, or failing to utilize safer alternatives.
Maneuvering flight, including buzzing and aerobatics, is highlighted as a particularly dangerous phase where pilots often take unnecessary risks.
To mitigate these preventable errors, various risk assessment and management tools like PAVE, CARE, and TEAM checklists, along with numerical scoring systems and online evaluators, are available to help pilots identify and manage hazards.
Ultimately, while these tools provide valuable risk information, the pilot in command holds the final responsibility for making safe go/no-go decisions.
You’ve given us a litany of accidents in which the pilots did something stupid,” pointed out one of the pilots of the Glens Falls Pilots and Owners Association to which I had just presented a program I call “Good Accidents.”
“Why do pilots do something stupid?” he asked.
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