Airbus Girl
Are you just having a bad day, or am I that bad at explaining myself.
No. A safer pilot is one who recognised and understood his limits whilst still on the ground and didn't take off into testing weather in the first place.
Are we again involved with the art of the bleeding obvious?
That is why I said a safe pilot never plans to get into that situation. Planning of course includes all aspects of pre-flight and in flight.
HOWEVER, it is indeed a very inexperienced pilot who believes he will never be in a situation for which he had not planned (planned NOT trained). I dont suppose the triple 7 pilots planned a double engine failure. I dont suppose any pilot plans for the donkey to stop. I dont suppose there are many instrument pilots who havent found themselves once in a while in conditions a little worse than they planned.
Fortunatley I have not had too many really troubling weather related event. I have been caught in a micro burst. There were no thunderstorms within 40+ miles. Nothing untoward in the forecast. Very first thing in the morning with no reason to have expected any convective build ups. No significant terrain, infact nothing that would have leant me to expect the conditions I encountered. However I can report that I didnt have the performance to climb out of the down draught. If I could have planned to have not been in that bit of air at the time I'd like to know how!