Your first lessons deal with defensive maneuvers, and the repetitive drills of take-off/landing procedures, know as "touch and go". These are to help you accustom yourself to controlling your leap and fall from the sky.
You learn the airplanes ability to turn, and stall, and challenge yourself repeatedly, with practice for disaster.
Once that is sound, then you ca learn navigation, and long distance travel.
Every time you leave the ground, you are taught to have checked your gasoline for water, and your fuel levels should have been visibly checked, in the tanks.
You go through a pre-flight checklist that begins before you turn the key, scanning the instruments for anomalies, and is continued with an engine run-up, and systems check, before you even get on the runway.
The training teaches you to continually scan the sky, and your instruments. They both let you know your level of safety.
Every thing else, is hope... trust... and bliss!
