Risk Management Magazine

All too often in aviation we are hesitant to admit when we don’t know something or, even worse, that we made a mistake. This is not surprising considering that, as a community, we are mostly Type A personalities.

A fellow Army aviator once told me that after making pilot in command, it’s only a matter of time until a pilot scares you more than you’d like. For me, it was about four months after getting my PC orders.

As a kid growing up in southern Florida, we used to go down to the boat ramps on weekends to see just how funny some people could be. It wouldn’t be too long before someone would show up towing a 28-foot cabin cruiser with an expensive car.