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It’s been my experience that high performance pilots are not arrogant ( as usually shown in the media), but supremely competitive.
Fighter pilots will not let the other pilot beat them, Attack pilots will not let the situation beat them, and test pilots will not let the machine beat them.
This drives them to do things that most of them freely admit after teh fact fall into the category of “stupid” 🙂