@AnnieBuddy @beatricejess @kylferr @ai6yr
Wasn't scary. In fact I've never been scared when flying. OK, so when taking off with no other pilot in the aircraft there's always that feeling that "hey, the only way I'm going to be alive in an hour's time is if I don't fuck up", but the clever trick is not to say it out loud if you've got passengers.
I think basically I trust my training, plus what I've learned from reading the accident reports, etc.
Like the time there was a smell of burning shortly after take-off. What instantly came to mind was the pilot who misdiagnosed an engine fire (in their case it was actually an electrical fire), turned the engine off, crashed into houses and died. So, bearing this in mind, I did nothing. At all. For seconds and seconds and seconds. Whilst I thought about it.
And eventually I worked out that this was probably the first time this autumn that it was cold enough for anyone to have turned the cabin heating on in this aircraft, so the burning smell was a summer's worth of dust heating up in the heating system.
