Thanks for a great discussion. But I have to ask. As a CFI do you ever worry about students not making the right decision? In aviation, it is only experience that makes most of us learn a good lesson and thus be better decision makers in the future. Experience i.e. learning from mistakes also makes us better pilots no? So, who is more safe? A pilot who made a bad decision, walked away from it, and then learned a good lesson, or the pilot who also happens to be an excellent decision maker, but did not ever experience an incident? How do you "teach" students to be better decision makers. I remember in my early training days some of the decisions I made were just horrible. I am still a student pilot, and I believe that learning more about ADM beyond the chapter is an absolute necessity because I don't have that A-type personality.