Its a brain game according eastern philosophy :-)
“Fear means to suffer what may or may not happen in the future. It is a consequence of mixing up your memory, your present experience, and your imagination.”
not sure if this helps?..but just go for it ;-)
Today the main airline selection process (80% plus) is identifying soft type skills. The old days of acing a jet assessment, asymmetric, circle to land on a raw NDB to Knock, turbulence on 11 if you were english, are a quaint historical footnote.
In the commercial world, indeed! In GA, hmm.
Thank you all for your posts and encouraging me to proceed. Especially @Fernando and @etn. That really helped.
I guess I’ll plan my next steps next week and I hope the stress level drops as soon as I got the first certificates like language proficiency and I can focus on flight lessons.
I will definitely report back and stay in touch. I prefer to be a little more anonymous at the moment as the industry is very small and I don’t discuss some things in public :)
Peter wrote:
never end up with the tanks full of air (lots of people do)
I would say the most important advice is all there in the training, which (Volaris) you will get to learn if you pursue: do proper planning and briefing, always monitor your instruments and fly stabilized approaches. Fuel starvation is almost always indicative of poor planning (or at least insufficient briefing and anticipation).
Second most important thing is to monitor your instruments and know your piloting by heart. Especially approach speeds (glimpse at IAS every few seconds).
Third most important thing I would add (based on what I was taught) is keep a good situational awareness of what’s going on around you. If you do everything rigorously (planning, briefing, piloting, cancelling etc.), mid-air collisions are what can really catch you. Go one step further than securing your own trajectory and get a mental picture of what everyone’s doing. This takes more time to learn but in the long run is very important.
Did any of you also have such thoughts during your training or did you get through it without any doubts?
No, yes.
You’ll soon know when it’s time to go fly solo.
It’s not for everyone
Volaris wrote:
Did any of you also have such thoughts during your training or did you get through it without any doubts?
No and pretty much yes. I got my license relatively late in life and my instructor even commented on that. It was something I had always wanted to do, but either didn’t have the money or the time. At some point, both came together and I went for it. It probably helped, though, that I had hundreds of hours as passenger in small airplanes and helicopters due to the nature of my work. YMMV.
RobertL18C wrote:
Psychology has developed a whole specialism in NO TECHS team based behavioural markers
GA is predominantly populated by SEPs with ONE (read 1 single) PIC. GA is NOT teamwork. Our brains are all alone up there. Teamwork (in the cockpit) requires practice and at least some theoretical background. All of that is completely absent from PPL curriculum. It’s not relevant. This is not to say that two persons, two old friends with matching chemistry, who fly a lot together doesn’t develop this into a good team, but that is different. Flying with an instructor is not teamwork.
It’s me myself and I, the aircraft and the elements. The better you are at alone handling the aircraft in those elements, the better pilot you are. There are some common aspects though. If survival is of the essence, then leaving margins for error is important. Following procedures is important. Always have a plan B etc. Bringing passengers, this is always important, but flying alone? It certainly could be, people at home might depend on you for instance. If the shit hits the fan and you have gone to plan B, what margins are left? very little or none. The only thing left is you, the aircraft and the elements.
Pig wrote:
Did any of you also have such thoughts during your training or did you get through it without any doubts?
Cant’s say I had any such thoughts. But I did my first solo in a glider at 16, perhaps too young to have such thoughts? Don’t know.
Sorry I don’t know how to do the quote bits. So the bit you are referring to from me was from the original poster.
Aeronautical Decision Making (ADM in FAA speak, Airmanship in UK parlance) also applies to single pilot operations – IN SPADES.
My point is that so called NOTECH skills are more valued these days.
