Pilot Edge

[Yetti]

Does it exist, do you need it to fly?   Do you need it to fly well?   Yesterday I decided later in the day to go burn off some fuel.   I was not really feeling IT.   I polished the spinner, because that is good for adding a couple of knots and then preflighted and launched.   But it was mostly on skill not on the Pilot Edge.   Or what some people may call the right stuff.   Do you think pilots have a cut above in the exceptional department?  I mean when you think about it every flight needs a perfect outcome.

I enjoy it when I crash a drone.   Not that it was the intention.    But it was a non perfect out come of a flight and nobody gets hurt.   

There are less pilots in the USA than PHD.    That would make us a pretty special group of people.

While I was up wondering what to do with myself, I remembered the inflight calibration of the Dynon system.     I found myself easily doing 45 degree bank turns with little effort.   Is it a skill or the pilot edge that makes that possible?   Do you need some level of edgyness to launch into the sky knowing that you will have a safe outcome?

If so can you lose the pilot edge?

 

 

[201er]

34 minutes ago, Yetti said:

I polished the spinner, because that is good for adding a couple of knots and then preflighted and launched. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuKJegABBTY