After of 4+ hours of flight with a small aircraft in complicated meteo conditions I start making some stupid mistakes. The landing is still ok; I've got 150 hours by now. Am I a lousy pilot? Will I do less such mistakes with more experience or is it a diagnosis for life? It is a dream of my life to make a career as a pilot, I will fight for it but those dumb errors now really disturb me. Hope the answers won't take away my belief in better life. Thank you in advance.
2006-10-28 13:20:59 · 7 answers · asked by Aiming High 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Aircraft
If you were in IFR conditions for 4 hours, yes you can start making mistakes.
The challenge is to learn from them.
It takes a lot of hours to become real efficient. Just like anything else it takes practise.
You did not really say if it was a total of four hours or four hours straight. I assumed it was straight.
Most instructors will not let you fly that long without a break at first. Well at least they shouldn't.
Practise and practise. I have had my instructors on retest bounce a landing.
150 hours is not a lot.
Keep your confidence up and most of all do not take chances. Do everything according to checklist.
Being a pilot is fun. Keep your dream.
Cheers.
2006-10-28 13:52:37 · answer #1 · answered by dyke_in_heat 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've seen this in students before; they get totally into the communications part of flying in a dense traffic area and are so focused on what the controller has just instructed them to do or what he may ask next that they stare out the windscreen and stop flying the airplane. Try performing a full panel scan after each acknowledgment to air traffic control, this may help you to refocus on flying the airplane. You just need to relax more. Think ahead of the airplane.
2006-10-29 01:13:02 · answer #2 · answered by pecker_head_bill 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your flight instructor leaving you're able to desire to be no reason for any large alarm. perchance you're able to get yet another one with a similar suggestions-set and alertness as your previous one. Please recall absolutely everyone who qualifies as a flight instructor follows a similar coaching development and approaches as required via your appropriate government. He gets his 'instructor's score' after studying himself a thank you to instruct destiny pilots. those syllabi are standardised to an exceptionally large quantity at the instant to ensure coaching standards proceed to be a similar in the process the device. on the grounds which you have reached you landing diploma, you're able to desire to have no problems adapting to the recent instructor. it extremely is in simple terms interior the very preliminary levels which you're feeling the will of that greater self assurance which makes you sense at living house interior the cockpit. you additionally must have the alternative of fixing your new instructor in case he does no longer seem to be like minded. This, regardless of if, is in simple terms a presumption which i'm hoping isn't actual. individually i could advise you to bypass forward alongside with your new instructor and that i desire you fulfillment on your flying. chuffed landings.
2016-12-16 16:03:36 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I still make mistakes from time to time. I have a Cherokee 140 with a huge 5" moving map GPS with topo that I have had to rely on a few too many times when weather got bad through the mountains. Or looking at the wind speed on the METAR at my destination airport thinking its strong but okay for landing without realizing it was a 90 degree CROSSWIND!
You just have to make sure you learn from your mistakes and experiences.
"Good judgement comes from experience, but experience usually comes from bad judgement"
-Old Aviation Proverb
2006-10-28 15:54:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is called "getting rattled" and can happen to anybody. Forget it, learn to act calmly even when your stuck to the seat cushion.
2006-10-28 13:30:33 · answer #5 · answered by Gaspode 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you are that lousey of a piolet, dont fly my plane...
lol
...just kidding If it is a dream, you need to do everything to make it come true. Good luck to you with your flight training.
2006-10-28 13:24:53 · answer #6 · answered by a_n_cassell 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no
2006-10-29 01:42:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋