Feeling off

Greetings,

I am just looking to hear some input/other pilots past experiences with maybe something similar.

A little bit of background on me, I have been flying for about 3 years now, professionally for the past 2 years or so. CFI/CFII, 700 turbine time, around ATP mins. I got lucky and was one of the ones able to secure a gig around 550TT outside of being a CFI, which I did for about 300 hours or so. I have one checkride failure, Comm single- messed up on the power off 180, but passed the recheck a week later. Other than that no primary failures, no failures in the 135 world either both initial, recurrent, and fleet specific. No accidents/incidents- made it through both 121 interviews I’ve done with CJOs.

I have always been a fairly confident pilot. Not cocky, just confident in my abilities. Never boasted about them, but never questioned them on a day to day basis. For the past few months, I have been in this weird funk. It’s like all my self confidence in my ability to “be a good knowledgeable pilot” (in my head) has diminished. In total transparency as well, I am not sure what brought it on? I have not had any major problems or performance issues, I’ve become very self critical in my flying life.

I start to overthink the basic things I have known, taught, and applied to my day to day flying life over the past few years. It has never degraded my overall performance in regards to safety, but it just more eats at me. Not really sure where the confidence went, or what set it on as I mentioned.

Just for shits and giggles an example, on a strong XWind landing, you know the fundamentals and develop a skill for something like that. I’ve always just been able to fly the plane and execute without even having to think twice about. Lately it’s like, it runs through my head and I have to think about every little step, energy management, improper vs proper correction blah blah blah. Too much right? Focusing on things that I’ve already executed, and I have had some sporty envelope pushing landings where I have just executed, and done great. All of that is just an example above as I stated.

Hoping it’s just a phase or funk that I can shake, ready to get back to flying and having a blast doing it, going home and not thinking about it until it’s time to go back!

Call me crazy, or give me some words of advice. At the end of the day, the day I got my license is the day I got my license to learn. I am still young in the field, and looking to just get some advice from people who have been around and know a thing or two.