Instrument Flying and Faith
Every time we are at the controls of our aircraft, we place our faith in our instruments. Especially when we enter clouds, losing sight of the environment outside of our plane, we depend on some gadgets to keep us stable and traveling in the right direction. As we added hours to our log book, we became more and more confident in the credibility of a bunch of dials or monitors. We learned in training that we cannot trust our own bodies to determine aircraft attitude or position. Most of us have confirmed that training by experiencing vertigo–that most misleading feeling known to mankind. throughout aviation history, hundreds of aviators have perished because they believed their own instincts rather than exercising faith in their aircraft. How much more important is our faith in God Who has never failed us.