I second Centaurus call for a few hours “real” IFR aspartame’s of the PPL syllabus.
My own untutored opinion of “getthereitis” is its a subset of human behaviours where people believe that, rationally, they can do something without having the experience to make an informed choice.
Examples:
- teenagers who think that driving 160 kmh on a suburban road is smart. They have never felt what it is like to start losing control at that speed.
- The weekend yachtsmen who think that weathering a depression in Bass Strait is easy peasy.
- The would be Military Rambo who has to discover the hard way that lying in the mud at 4am in freezing cold is not what they signed up for.
- The private pilot who thinks that all that Skyview stuff and GPS is going to save him in Instrument conditions coupled with severe turbulence.
We rationalise we can do this without training and experience. We can’t.