Actually no - as a pilot you should be reading your instruments and taking your cue from them. You might have expectations but these need to be sublimated to the readings on your instruments. They will tell you what is happening. You seem to be describing an expectation state exactly the same as I interpret the phrase and this is dangerous. By allowing yourself to accept this state and to let it influence your actions you are running the risk of deviating from actuallity and ignoring the warning signs. Your definition of expectation is also flawed - it is a belief that a future situation will pertain or a future flow will occur. It is not per se linked to reality. Reality is what happens and rather than focus on expectations one should be focusing on things as they are and trying to predict what will happen based on the reality. Once one gets into expectations one can wander off the path to a very large degree.