Attitude, mental not aircraft
Moving slightly off-thread.
A question for aircrew doing check or test flights.
When performing test flights, as you go through the list of checks, in what frame of mind are you ?
When performing an action, do you expect a normal response, or are you prepared for an abnormal response, or are you prepared for "anything to happen" ?
Back to the Perpignan thread: is it possible that towards the end of a checkflight where everything has been routine, the crew were in a frame of mind expecting that all responses would continue to be routine/as expected ?
I'm thinking back to commissioning many newly-launched spacecraft, and working with ground stations, where it was esssential to be in the correct frame of mind when doing systems checks, and how after the initial burning-in phase where one was very wary, one "got used" to all responses being nominal.
And therein lurked the danger.....