Originally Posted by
cardiomd
Do you feel you would make the same mistake as Mr. Bonin if your pitot freezes? If so, please stop flying and get some more sim time, for the sake of yourself and your passengers
It is comments like this that prove you don't have enough experience to make such emphatic statements. You yourself even commented about how much of a "handful" a single engine turboprop could be. An aerodynamically clean aircraft with powerful jet engines at takeoff power handles much more differently than a 182.
The state of a 182 will barely change in the amount of time it takes to recognize that: A. You have unreliable instrumentation, B. Determine which instruments are providing valid information, C. Realize that what your body is telling is a lie, and D. recover. Meanwhile, a jet will easily jet into an extremely high descent rate that will require unusually large control inputs to stop.
Unreliable instrumentation is one of the hardest things to recover from. They lead you down a path of confidence that is hard to break. The characteristics that it would take to recover at the first sign of unreliable instrumentation would also cause you to make drastic changes when you or the other pilot makes a minor automation error. 99% of emergencies require pilots to spend time verifying and evaluating the failure, not reacting. I have seen unreliable instrumentation get the better of plenty of experienced pilots even when it was briefed by the instructor an hour before.
You were right that GOOD pilots study the mistakes of others, but pilots with enough EXPERIENCE in human factors also realize that even with the benefit of hindsight, we can make the same errors.