While I was training to get my instrument rating, I soon began to realize that this was no easy license to get. Flying IFR (instrument flight rules) pretty much means no screw-ups, because screwups in bad weather (low visibility and/or ceiling) can kill you. I was a screw-up even on a good day. I shouldn’t say that,I shouldn’t say that, though, when I talk about flying, because aviation is probably one of the very few things in my life to which I gave my complete focus and avoided screw-ups. I always flew with the idea that some evil genie was ...