Dear Parabellum
I think that I know rather more than you do about emotional responses, classic and operant conditioning, shaping, behavioural training, autonomic responses and the unpredictability of human response to threats.
In this context I am the professional.
I mention a small amount of time in a simulator and my only live engine failure in the context of differentiating the personal emotional impact by a synthetic rather than a priori approach, in response to Perkin's post.
I make no comment about flying aeroplanes and am happy to leave that to those who hold APTLs.
Whether I would be any better than anyone else in the event of an emergency in an aircraft is a matter of conjecture and would be proven/refuted by experiencing the event. having survived one very serious fire in a building already, I am rather hoping to leave my reaction as a matter of conjecture.
Since you like quotes, try this one from John Major....
"Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be 'too clever by half.' The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters."
Last edited by Final 3 Greens; 2nd Aug 2007 at 01:05.