If you're wondering why I sometimes (often?) tweet about stupid mistakes I've made, it' follows from not very long ago having had a private pilot license, buzzing the sky for fun.

Mini thread (my 1st, I think.)
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In the dark ages of aviation, it was dangerous. Part of it was, no doubt, because the aircraft of the time were flimsy and the physics of flight was poorly undertood, but primariy it was a matter of attitude.
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Attitude? Yes, attitude. There was this stiff upper lip attitude that the trade was dangerous and only people of the right stuff made it through. If you didn't make it, you weren't up to it. Simples.
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So, with a stiff upper lip attitude, people, of course, never told about scary situations, because if you're a hero and you had a scary situation that you yourself caused, you're not a hero anymore, you're a wimp that got lucky (this time)
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I'm not sure where the insight 1st came from, but in the 50s military air forces around the world began to realize that one persons scrary survival story was another persons funeral.
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So, an indoctrination began, tell everybody of your stupidest mistakes and what happened, no punishment no matter how obviously the only person at fault is you.
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Accident rates in general, and fatalities in particular, plummeted, because pilots learned. So, friends. I tweet about stupid bugs because 1) No stiff upper lip, I'm experienced, but not infallible. 2) Maybe someone can learn from my mistake.
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