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I have flown now for more than 30 years. While on a couple commercial flights yesterday and the day before I read an article in Plane&Pilot with the title of "Are you A Pilot Or An Aviator?". For some time now since my incident in June I have made it a personal goal to work purposefully and with a commitment on improving my knowledge and piloting skills, in particular those areas relating to my Mooney Rocket. Mooneyspace has very much been a part of that commitment, while I dont always comment on much of what I read the information and exchanges have not always provided me with specific answers but more often with questions for myself to investigate and learn more on as well. The privilege and responsibility of flying is both as great as it is satisfying especially when we carry precious cargo like family and other humans! Since I file and fly almost every flight IFR for the last several years I also read another article yesterday by John King (of John & Martha King School) in Flying in the area of IFR INSIGHT "Crewed Approach to Single-Pilot IFR" and was reminded again how much responsibility and how demanding the workload of single pilot IFR is. While there is much more than I can afford to chase in either terms of time or $ I would like any input on what your top suggestions and or activities you would recommend for such a goal? Also I DO NOT LIKE TO READ>>> and I am the worst test taker in the world... Some of the items I am either working on or researching now and have high interest in: LOP / ROP operations Detailed knowledge of my aircraft and everything in it (how it works, what is it made of etc) Mountain Flying (another great article in Flying titled "Deadly Downdrafts", I fly frequently into CO) Emergency flight procedures Spin training Unusual attitude recovery training Formation flight training Rules & Regulations knowledge Equipment enhancement & backup (avionics mainly, panel and portable) Hence the New Name RocketAviator.... because that is what I want to and am committed to work to become! Appreciate your suggestions and feedback and (have to be very careful with this last one with this group-lol ) feel free to Hold ME Accountable!