In any aircraft you fly, you always think about what can go wrong, and you plan for it in advance. You always have back-up plans.
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I always try to plan things out, but they never work out the way I expect.
If Plan A fails, they could always revert to Plan A.
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
It was understood that when I left to do the pilot that I wasn't coming back.
During my training to become an airline captain, I had to learn how to navigate an airplane over long distances. Flights over huge oceans, crossing extensive deserts, and connecting continents need careful planning to ensure a safe arrival at the planned destination.
When you have a deadline, or when you know that your equipment is about to go up in a rocket and you won't have another chance to fix it, your mind works in a way that it otherwise never would.
Pilots learn to use human skills to communicate information and make decisions collectively, which creates a shared sense of responsibility among the team for better outcomes.
I've been taught in my life that you can have plans, but you can't count on them.
Like, to do a pilot, you don't know what's going to happen with it.
I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.