"I'll just press on for another couple of minutes"
"It's only a small cloud"
"I'll nip through that gap"
"I've got enough fuel to push through this headwind".
[A lot of people have stopped growing old that way.]
Funny that, I do all of the above, routinely. I should be long dead, evidently.
That's right, that's how PPL training works in the UK. Train pilots to know close to s0d-all about flight planning, close to s0d-all about instrument flight and radio navigation, take £8000 off them for the job "done", and then give them a handout with all these wonderful ex-WW1 aviation sayings. Might as well give them a leather cap and goggles but that would cost far too much.