Are you a particularly hazardous pilot?

As pilot in command you are directly responsible for your own safety as well as the safety of the others such as passengers, ground personal, equipment and crew.

Your Attitude and general health, like stress or fatigue, knowledge, skill level and recency of experience are several factors which affect your performance as pilot in command and it plays a role in classifying you as a hazardous pilot or not.

There are five Attitudes that are considered particularly hazardous :

* Impulsivity : The act of doing everything and anything without thinking it through and finding a better and more adequate solution, doing the first thing on your mind.

* Macho: taking risks in attempt to prove that they’re better than anyone else.

*Anti-authority: people who resent having someone tell them what to do or they regard rules and procedures as unnecessary.

*Resignation : people with this attitude do not see themselves as making a great deal of difference in what happens to them , when things go well they think it’s a good luck,when things go badly it’s bad luck .

*Invulnerability :believing that when accidents happen to others but not you means that you’re always safe , if you have this attitude as a pilot you are more likely to take chance and increase risk .

These hazardous attitudes can lead to poor decisions making and actions during critical Abnormalities and emergencies.

By Ahmed shebl

FAA CFI ,CFII and MEI ,Airline captain