Hazardous attitudes commonly encountered by pilots include

• A. Antiauthority, impulsivity, macho, resignation, and invulnerability
• B. Discipline, caution, patience, and humility
• C. Complacency, curiosity, precision, and teamwork
• D. Anxiety, fear, excitement, and fatigue

Answer: (A)

Recognizing hazardous attitudes that can derail flight decision making. In training, a standard list of these attitudes helps pilots spot quiet mental traps: anti-authority (resisting rules and procedures), impulsivity (acting without thinking), invulnerability (believing accidents won’t happen to me), macho (pushing through risk to prove you’re capable), and resignation (giving up when faced with a danger). Each one nudges judgment off course and can lead to unsafe choices, especially when combined with the pressures of a flight.

The option that lists these five attitudes matches the well-known set pilots are taught to recognize and counteract, so it’s the best choice. Other options mix positive or neutral traits—discipline, caution, patience, humility, teamwork, curiosity, precision—that support safe flying, not the hazardous mindset the question is testing.