Originally Posted by
Lead Balloon
So typical. Monday morning quarterbacks always know the safer option they would have taken after a collision in an aircraft they've never actually flown in circumstances they've never actually experienced. Let's all pile on to the surviving pilot!
It’s human nature to fly “home,” it’s human factors and we are probably all guilty of it in some circumstance at some stage of our flying. Very similar to get-home-itis. It’s in-bred and you can’t change it without a conscious effort. Airlines are good at managing this risk and cover it in their SOP’s.
Changing your planned destination can be mentally taxing under stress… you go back to what you know and it’s one of the reasons why we have so many VFR into IMC occurrences.