(Edit: “Rules,” not “Rating.” Sorry.)
Obviously I don’t know beans about flying, but I see many stories about inexperienced pilots who get disoriented flying through clouds, sometimes even to the point of flying upside-down. Aren’t there instruments on your control panel which tell you your speed, altitude, and orientation? How can you be plummeting towards the ground and not notice?
I hope this question isn’t so ignorant as to be insulting. I know flying is difficult and complicated and it’s easy to criticize from here on the ground. I wish I was skilled enough to know how to fly a plane. I just see many stories about accidents where inexperienced pilots seem to be making apparently ridiculous mistakes.
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The biggest problem for me and other students when we did our training, was that human brains suck. We can become fixated, ignore what instruments are telling us, not trust them, not pay attention, basically human factors are the #1 cause of accidents.
Case in point, I was flying with a friend who was time building. She flew into a cloud (at night(you can’t see them until you are in them)), I expected her to turn around, do a 180 and go to where we came from.
So she starts the turn, and we bank, and bank more, and more, and more, until I grab the controls and very politely yell at her “what the fuck are you doing???”
Her answer, was “Oh, I was watching our speed”
Point here is that even though she had the required training to fly into and then out of a cloud. She failed. People fail because we make mistakes and are human.
Flying is easy to do(very easy), hard to do right.
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