Bob Blick wrote:
>> You practice "loosing control" in controlled situations.
>>
>> Every winter, when the opportunity arises I pull into an empty parking
>> lot and "refresh" my loss of control skills (assuming there's enough
>> snow).
>>
>> > I don't want to accumulate sufficient
>> > experience with children running into the street. I think too many of
>> > them would get hit before I learned.
>>
>> That's not what we are talking about. When you are familiar with loss of
>> control your actions to counter it become very instinctual and
>> automatic. The "steer into the skid" sort of stuff never even enters the
>> mind, you just act accordingly.
>
> I know how to drive out of control, I've had lots of track time and
> off-road time and snow/ice time, etc as well as performance driving
> training. But if a kid runs in front of me I hit the brakes. Maybe
> you're different? To me, it's panic time when it's a real person out
> there and not just a pylon or a raccoon.

Based on personal experience and on what I read it is precisely the training 
(be it in driving or flying a plane) that helps avoid panic during a 
stressful situation. Your body "knows what to do", some people would say 
"the training kicks in". Conscious processing of what happened, comes after 
the fact.

Vitaliy 

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