I can relate to this so much. I'm a low-time pilot with around 180 hours and over the past 20 hours or so I've been finding myself in the valley of despair. I'm less confident now about flying than when I was fresh off my private checkride. I have my instrument checkride coming up in less than a week and I've never felt less confident about flying. There's still so much that I DON'T know. Every time I get in the airplane these days I feel the gravity of how dangerous it is to fly and how one big mistake or a chain of many mistakes can lead to a mishap.
This comment hit home. I felt exactly the same way. Especially before my instrument checkride. Realizing how much I didn't know and still had to learn was a confidence killer but I will say it kept me humble. I'm over 600 hours with my commercial certificate at this point and I'm still humbled by flying. One of instructors told me in that past -“There are old pilots and there are bold pilots, but there are no old, bold pilots”. That quote has stuck with me to this day. I think through every decision carefully and consider the consequences of my actions.
Instrument Checkride prep is hard. Approach, hold, approach, hold, knowledge, partial panel, approach. It’s a LOT! I would imagine you are ready. It will pay off! I learn something every time I fly, which is a lot. None of us will ever know it all. As long as we keep learning, that is the way. Let me know how the practical goes! You got this 👊👊
150 hrs, just done with eoc for instrument part 141. Exact same boat, and my schools stagecheck examiner (Former fighter pilot) gave no mercy in terms of letting me know how much I didn't know when he went into such in depth detail that even the PHAK, or Jeppesen textbooks could provide in terms of engine systems, regulatory requirements, practical procedures etc. After passing, I didn't give myself time to celebrate but immediately hit the books and youtube videos.
Hey, thank you for adding this. I want to add one thing to that for when you talk about having a medical advocate I’m not trying to promote it, but I have the AOPA pilot protection services and they are very great service used to be a medical advocate for you so just wanna throw that out there
I have been told and I believe that a pilots license is a license to learn.You never know everything about aviation,your learning all the time.At least,that's what I believe.
1:33 That Mt. Stupid graph is not the Dunning-Kruger effect (and is a curious meta example of the effect). It is not a different way to display the actual effect, its quite unrelated. It has been a few years, but I recall Dunning mentioning this in a talk and wondering where it came from and why anyone associates it with his work. The actual study (with the two linear lines) is showing tested competence and self-assesed competence, not experience.
Thank you so much for your very well thought out and accurate comment! I did read the actual paper, and watched many many interviews with David Dunning, and his curiosity on how the Mt. Stupid chart got associated with his work. It is my opinion, that the Mt. Stupid chart, is more an 'internet-popularized' version of the concept D-K effect. I did include the actual chart @ 02:18, and said in the video, that the published D-K effect is a indeed a different from Mt Stupid. (Also, the D-K paper is referenced in the first part of the description of this video). The Mt. Stupid chart is 'internet-popular' and not a true reflection of D-K like you said, but it also is an effective way to illustrate competence and self-tested competence, and for this video, experience of a low time pilot. Thank you again for watching, and your excellent feedback!
@@NathanBallardSaferFlying Yeah, I bumped reply before finishing the video and youtube seems to have given you the first draft of my comment. Which I actually deleted and replaced, not simply edited.
Great video! You have an excellent take on hazardous attitudes updated for current times, and I can really relate to all of these. One caveat to Automation Bias as a hazardous attitude, and I'm interested in your thought on this one (future video...?): An autopilot is the single most important tool for a GA pilot flying single pilot IFR. Its a no-go item for me if there's IMC involved. While over reliance on automation can be a problem, *mastery* of automation is critical for instrument pilots.
Thank you so very much for watching and the excellent feedback! Automation bias (or as a hazardous attitude for the sake of this video and bringing attention to it), is EXACTLY what you are saying: both an over-reliance, AND UNDER-reliance. I did not make under-reliance/mastery of the AP, as clear as I could have. I am with you all the way: AP is an amazing tool, and medium to long periods of IMC without it.... I won't do it either. I will follow this up with a video on AP, it needs more discussion indeed. Thanks again! 🙌
#3 We just had a Flying Midwest Podcast episode released where our awesome guest said she sees too many pilots point to their iPad and say “There’s traffic there” and she has to tell them, “I don’t think it’s on your iPad bi think is out the window”
Great advice, well-presented. I’ll take it all to heart in my own flying. (And thanks for the nice shot of KMQY, the airport I most frequently fly out of!)
Great content- especially the bit on automation. It’s essential to know how to fly the plane, since you are the pilot 😅. Handflying is more fun anyways!
oh my god, tv intro, love it. actually love the whole thing, your video presentation is so good. I'm looking forward to the entire NateB Ground School. re: screen time, did you see the screenshots I posted with the eye tracking study of scanning after ADSB?
They are ‘official’ attitudes published by the FAA, but they are hopefully a real world reflection as to what is happening to some tough pilot decision making… and that is just my opinion, of course. Appreciate you watching and commenting!
@@NathanBallardSaferFlying 👍✅ now there is something that "she" never said, "you give good emoji" 🤣🤣🤣 sub, like, watch to the end and comment to feed the algorithms for deserving creaters!
Appreciate the feedback. Editing is a skill I am trying to improve upon. Sound effects were too loud, agreed. Hope you come back for future videos. Fly safe ✅✅✅
