Wed May 20, 2015 11:29 pm
#1376144
I know that it's fatal to become fixated on a particular problem and ignore all the other stuff that I'm supposed to be doing.
I know that in IMC you keep the scan going, regardless. I know that you worry about keeping the aeroplane the right way up first and foremost and always, and that which direction it's pointing in or where you're going is an utterly secondary consideration.
So why, the other day, in a cloud somewhere, did I get fixated for several seconds worrying about why my DI wasn't working? (In fact I was right, it wasn't working, and I fixed it later on.)
When, after those several seconds, I looked back at the AI I saw something I'd never seen before in IMC, and possibly worse than anything I'd seen in unusual attitude recovery training.
I'm still here. (So the unusual attitude recovery training must have worked. I'm always impressed when the training Just Works.) But I don't want to see an AI looking like that again in cloud. Ever.
(Not enough instrument practice, obviously, apart from everything else.)
I know that in IMC you keep the scan going, regardless. I know that you worry about keeping the aeroplane the right way up first and foremost and always, and that which direction it's pointing in or where you're going is an utterly secondary consideration.
So why, the other day, in a cloud somewhere, did I get fixated for several seconds worrying about why my DI wasn't working? (In fact I was right, it wasn't working, and I fixed it later on.)
When, after those several seconds, I looked back at the AI I saw something I'd never seen before in IMC, and possibly worse than anything I'd seen in unusual attitude recovery training.
I'm still here. (So the unusual attitude recovery training must have worked. I'm always impressed when the training Just Works.) But I don't want to see an AI looking like that again in cloud. Ever.
(Not enough instrument practice, obviously, apart from everything else.)