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fighting chance to fix things. What kind of training would it be if we crashed all the time? Well, real life isn’t fair. You know that from your life on the ground, and you’ve seen life when it was unfair plenty of times. Why would you think it was different in the air? Who says your inf light, real-life scenarios will be fair? Who says that you will have time to sort it out? We can’t train for every scenario. So we train for the ones we know about, the ones that have happened before. The ones that could happen again; the likely ones. Not the unlikely ones. Not the unfair ones. Plus, there isn’t time to practice the unfair, unrealistic scenarios. There are too many. And if we are going to crash anyway, why practice them? All valid points, wouldn’t you agree? Until, that is, something that has never happened, happens.
It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Coach John Wooden
Please take to heart my story-telling version of this catastrophic tale. It gives us a situation to live through vicariously;
one to think about and from which to learn. What ever happened to the pilot in our story, I’m sure it was confusing and surreal. We need to give ourselves the best opportunity to resolve inf light problems by being physically and mentally up to speed. By pre-f lighting the airplane every time and by staying proficient; by training to be ready for both the fair, a•nd the unfair. And when our training and the published procedures fail, to think outside the box. The FAR’s give us permission. In fact, they tell us to. It may provide the seconds we need. T&T
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