Did you ever have a "moment" when flying
By moment I mean moment of sheer terror.
Roland Beamont describes such a moment in his autobiography. Roland came all the way through the Second World war as a fighter pilot, he was shot down and captured as a prisoner of war, and tested the early prototypes of many tricky aircraft including the Lightning. He even pioneered the idea of solo night attacks on targets of opportunity in the Typhoon, but per his own assessment he was only ever terrified when flying on one occasion.
A middle eastern Strikemaster customer had complained to BAe that the "fire control system" was not performing as promised (an FCS on a Strikemaster - is that "ring and bead" ?) and Roland was dispatched to identify the problem. Their chief pilot was ex-RAF as I recall and he took Bee up on a QWI type sortie. On the way to the range he had the Strikemaster running wide open on the deck. With sand dunes looming ahead Bee expected the pilot's low-level display to end with a pull up, but he simply pressed on and avoided each dune by rolling and raising the wingtip as required with the dune disappearing just a couple of feet under each wing at 400 knots or so. Bee believed that the pilot expected him to grab the stick but he kept his hands on his knees the entire time, apparently he was quite shaken by the experience but kept his cool.
Maybe it's different as a passenger, pilots rarely have enough time to worry about things, but was there "a moment" in your career ?