Marc's MSLD 500 Reflection Blog

A Standard Life Every twelve months I am required to take a checkride with an FAA approved check airman and demonstrate that I am able to fly all of the required maneuvers and emergency procedures.  It is important for a professional pilot to maintain the expected high level of proficiency and safety.  The FAA has established a set of minimum criteria that pilots must meet or exceed during the checkride.  This set of standards is called the Practical Test Standards.  For example, the Practical Test Standards specify that while flying a traffic pattern a pilot must be able to maintain the proper altitude within 100 feet and the proper airspeed within 10 knots (U.S. Department of Transportation, 2013). Photo credit: practicalmanliness.com A standard is something that is established and used to verify a measurement of a quantity or a quality (“standard,” n.d.).  There are many different types of standards.  For example, a unit of measurement is a st...

Intellectual Perseverance Intellectual perseverance is the determination to stay on the path that has been thought out and reasoned to be the best one, despite the fact that others may think that another path is preferable.  It is also the ability to put in the required mental effort to endure to the end of that path, considering all the options, and looking at all the points of view. One of the three parts of critical thinking is “believing the results of our reasoning” (Nosich, 2012). Nosich states that “If you have reasoned something out and come to a conclusion but find that you still don’t really believe it, that indicates the reasoning is probably not complete” (2012).  After reasoning something out completely there should be no resistance to accepting the new belief or behavior.  This understanding can provide the determination and grit to follow through with the decision.  Though others may suggest that the new belief or behavior is faulty,  though i...