Originally Posted by
Arcal76
The vast majority of pilots who crashed are not stupid...They just got caught..... If you read full accident report, fixed wing or helicopters, the vast majority of pilots involved had experience and were good pilots. Experience is not a guarantee that you won't do any mistake because many experienced pilots do mistakes. It is just reality. And experience help you to push boundaries......As pilots, we deal with many different situations, luck is sometimes your savor, we all had very close call.
In my experience, I have been fortunate enough to have had pilots with experience that DON’T push boundaries, have been fortunate enough to have had pilots have DEALT with different/difficult situations(including encountering bad weather at the top of mountains) on each occasion by turning back, taking the safe route around the coastline or canceled the flight.
In my opinion common sense is sometimes your savior, not luck, as for your close call, I hope you learnt something from it!