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turn the fuel off; push or pull the wrong f light control; etc. I highly recommend taking a more calm and methodical ap- proach to an emergency diagnosis. As an example, if you run a gas tank dry (not recommended) and the engine quits, you change to what you believe is the fuller tank but it seems to take an eternity to re-ignite. So, you panic and assume you’re somehow out of fuel. You then aggressively move to completing the en- tire emergency ditching procedure and hastily shut the fuel off when in fact, a few more seconds of “wait and see” would have kept the motor(s) running. It happens by the way, and it can create a real-time emergency. Thus, proving haste indeed makes waste.
Meditate on this: ongoing training is a privilege to embrace with an open mind and positive attitude. Knowing your air- craft and your limitations before you slip into any cockpit is key. On one occasion, when I’d lost focus of what’s most impor- tant in any career, a close pilot friend pulled me aside and said, “What you do for a living does not define you as a hu- man being – how you do your living does.”
Training is a very personal evolution- ary journey that improves your safety consciousness, situational awareness and enhances your total appreciation of fly- ing. After all, there’s a lot to lose by not be- ing well-equipped for any mission and far more to gain by being prepared. T&T
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Scott Kraemer is a 35+ year veteran in the business aviation industry, with 27 of those years spent in the sales and marketing department at Beechcraft Corporation. Scott holds a Commercial Pilot License and has logged over 7,000 hours in more than 50 aircraft models. Pres- ently, Scott is an Executive Director for Holstein Aviation specializing in aircraft acquisitions, sales and consultation. You can contact Scott at jscottkraemer@gmail.com.
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