PLT232: Hazardous Attitudes
What code PLT232 covers, why the FAA tests it, and how to study Hazardous Attitudes before your checkride.
Recall FOI techniques / human behavior - dangerous tendencies
What this means for your checkride
The FAA identifies hazardous attitudes that lead pilots into poor decisions: anti-authority, impulsivity, invulnerability, macho, and resignation. Each has a specific antidote a pilot repeats to counter it, and recognizing the attitude in yourself is the first step in aeronautical decision-making.
Most accidents trace to decisions, not stick-and-rudder failures, so the FAA tests the five hazardous attitudes and their antidotes as the core of aeronautical decision-making.
Hazardous attitudes are not a personality label for other people; every pilot exhibits them at times, which is why the tool is to catch the attitude in the moment and apply its antidote.
Where to study it
A code on your test report is an area of deficiency. An authorized instructor must review it with you and endorse that review before you take the practical test, and the examiner may revisit it during the oral. Study it until you can explain it out loud, not just recognize the answer.