Posts Tagged ‘Aviate Navigate Communicate’
Maintaining Control of November
We are mid-November, caught between finishing what we need to accomplish and account for this year, and preparing for the new year coming. As time available seems to shorten, and calendars fill up with impossible amounts of residual tasks, our heads can start to feel full and pressurised. Board meetings, end of term and end of…
Read MoreTaming the Squirrel
Long before the reports will conclude what happened to the right engine of United Airlines Flight 328 Boeing 777 aircraft which failed catastrophically on February 20th, much discussion has revolved around the pilot’s mayday calls and a human phenomenon known as “startle effect”. The discussion is prompted by the somewhat disjointed nature of the pilot’s…
Read More“Aviate, Navigate, Communicate.”
In aviation, “Aviate, Navigate, Communicate” is our absolute go-to baseline rule. It’s born of the knowledge that if pilots fixate on solving a particular problem in an emergency, they can lose perspective on what’s really important – which is flying the airplane. For that reason, this axiom is hammered into our brains during training so that…
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