{"id":1650,"date":"2015-03-15T12:22:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-15T01:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/?p=1650"},"modified":"2015-03-15T12:22:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T01:22:00","slug":"no-greater-burden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/?p=1650","title":{"rendered":"No greater burden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"No greater burden\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aopa.org\/Education\/Safety-Videos\/No-Greater-Burden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-1651\" src=\"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/03\/no-greater-burden.jpg?w=627\" alt=\"No greater burden\" width=\"627\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/no-greater-burden.jpg 1078w, https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/no-greater-burden-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/no-greater-burden-1024x638.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/no-greater-burden-768x479.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/><\/a>More about flying safely: here is a moving and <a title=\"No greater burden\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aopa.org\/Education\/Safety-Videos\/No-Greater-Burden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">important video from AOPA<\/a> about the consequences of, and lessons from, an aircraft accident which led to\u00a0the death of the pilot&#8217;s son.<\/p>\n<p>The accident resulted from a relatively simple\u00a0mistake made by an experienced pilot, which clearly had devastating consequences. Although over 30 minutes long,\u00a0I think the video\u00a0should be mandatory viewing for all pilots, however experienced.<\/p>\n<p>After the video, have a look at the points score for the Stress Scale &#8211; it&#8217;s interesting to see that it isn&#8217;t only negatives which affect your judgement.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from all the psychological factors, I know of several\u00a0pilots who have individually\u00a0commented that physical factors such as dehydration, very early (03.30) rising with a full day&#8217;s activity, long gaps between meals or\u00a0flying into the sun for long periods, all resulted in ragged landings towards\u00a0the end of the day. Thankfully, aircraft were not damaged and no-one was injured but all have learned these basic lessons for future application.<\/p>\n<p>Fly safely.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More about flying safely: here is a moving and important video from AOPA about the consequences of, and lessons from, an aircraft accident which led to\u00a0the death of the pilot&#8217;s son. The accident resulted from a relatively simple\u00a0mistake made by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/?p=1650\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[432,696,790],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}