Anthony Stanton is a student researcher at Griffith University in Australia. He’s conducting research on “rule related behavior of General Aviation pilots.”
“More specifically, the research explores the psychological determinants of a situational violation and whether personal normative influences contribute to predicting rule-related behavior.”
I just took the survey and found it both easy and interesting. As the respondent, we’re asked our thoughts about a flight with friends that encounters deteriorating weather very close to our home airport, which is our final destination.
Interested? Click here.
They did not ask the question of, if you turned around and tried an attempt of returning to your departing airport, if weather would surround you. And now you are further away from any landing. And really in trouble.