The Big Picture – Direction, Clarity, Energy

I had the pleasure and privilege a few weeks back of sitting in on a flight test in an Airbus 320 simulator and flying an approach to landing myself.  Because it was a flight test, and was conducted in a simulator, the crew had flown us through take-offs and approaches in every kind of bad…

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Maintaining The Big Picture

(You’ll need your metaphor thinking caps on for this one!) As a pilot, maintaining The Big Picture means simultaneously taking in many different layers of information about your surroundings, evaluating the possible meaning of that information and then using that information to judge future actions.  Otherwise known as Situational Awareness, maintaining The Big Picture is…

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