The Go/No-Go Call Is Yours Alone

Every pilot leaves training with a set of limits an instructor imposed on them. Flying reports that the sounder approach is to replace those borrowed limits with a personal set, built using formal risk management tools rather than an inherited rule of thumb. For a pilot who owns the aircraft, that distinction carries extra weight: there is no check airman to defer to on departure day, only the owner's own judgment. The publication frames this as taking full ownership of the safety decision.

With reporting from Flying.