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This was one of the main ideas behind the USHGA Safe Pilot Award. The idea wasn't to say that if you never crashed hard enough to need a doctor, you were a safe pilot. The idea was to get pilots thinking about the quality of their decisions. Not just, "Did I get hurt on that flight?" but, "Could I have gotten hurt?" During the first couple of years of the Safe Pilot Award program I got a few calls and letters from pilots who would tell me about an incident they'd had, and ask for my opinion as to whether it should be cause for them to re-start their count of consecutive safe flights. I would give them my opinion, but always pointed out that in the end it didn't matter. The important thing was that they were actively thinking about how dangerous the incident had really been--that is, what the actual quality of their decision making was.