Only with the destruction of vested interests do options become available. Without options, judgment is impossible.

Consider downdraft as an upset. An upset is when an observation does not fit within our orientation or belief system. Not over time, it is not the age that make an old dog hard to train, but over many iterations of doing things a certain way do we become stiff and inflexible. The more repetitions of a control input that has worked out satisfactory, the more vested our interest and belief in it becomes. We now have an orientation, belief, mission, concept of the operation, or such. Suppose we have operated within the limits of stable air long enough that we believe certain power settings and pitch attitudes achieve certain rates of climb, airspeeds, altitudes, etc. Now we enter a significant downdraft. Given this vested interest, we likely will pitch to Vy attitude and airspeed to fight going down, to stay up, to maintain altitude. This causes us to remain in the downdraft longer and at a slower than cruise airspeed. The option of pitching down to fly through the downdraft at faster than cruise airspeed cannot occur until the former vested interest in certain power settings and pitch attitudes are destroyed. Until this second option and/or others become available only compliance is available to us. No judgment is possible.

Vested interest boxes, like the above, are scientific and useful to achieve compliance, conformity, standardization, and such. They mess with our orientation, however, in the OODA loop. They make rapid transitions in our decisions and actions less possible. They lead to upsets when observations don't jive with our orientation. These upsets can cause us to come unglued.

Like gunfighting...

Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill every time.

A lot of the stuff filling up that bag of tricks goes against initial instinct.

Gump


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Hmmm...somebody has been reading John Boyd...