aviation

That was worth the dive down the rabbit hole. It sucks that this woman got herself and her dad killed. Watching the blancolirio videos about the crash where he played two of her recent videos, even to me who knows little, I feel she had no business flying without more instruction and far better instruction and a much greater fear of the consequences.

It boggles my mind that she would try to use the autopilot when she thought it was broken, didn't bother to learn more about it, and actually asked her non pilot dad to help her fly when she was struggling. That sounds categorically insane to me.

It seems like she didn't spend the time understanding her autopilot system. And from all the airplane disaster shows I've seen, quite a few catastrophes are due to poor understanding of aircraft functions.

It also sounds like she didn't have a firm grasp on the most fundamental aspects of aviation. Just from flying RC planes and doing a little reading I know that a plane with a high angle of attack that is losing airspeed and not climbing is in danger of an aerodynamic stall and needs power added or angle of attack reduced or both.

Which all goes to say that, from what I can tell, anyone wanting to get into flying better be very serious about learning how to avoid common mistakes, prevent getting in over your head, and make sure you truly understand basics and how to fly the airplane. It seems it can be as safe or dangerous as you make it?