Excellent Aviation Week article “How Pilots Intuitively Make Critical Decisions” is free online.
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Japanese running monks
“Enlightenment, the monk says, isn’t a point where everything stops and you’ve made it, forever surrounded by a halo of bliss. It is something alive, something that pushes you on every day, whether you are a Daigyoman Ajari on Mount Hiei or a data-management assistant in an office in Hounslow.”
Article in The Guardian on Japanese monks who run long-distance every day for 1000 days.
Dale Masters on flying and understanding
This sport can be terribly frustrating at all levels, but after we pay our inevitable dues, it becomes more than worth the effort. Less experienced pilots must be patient and persistent, and continue to try different variations of method. After a few long thermal flight we begin to develop a sense of what is about to happen, and what to do about it. Then, after a few hundred flights, we begin to gain an intuitive sense of how to perform little miracles, almost on demand. To avenge the disappointment of short flights when the old-timers are trumpeting how good the soaring is, preserve, be as sensitive as possible to all forms of information, and use your imagination.
And never assume you really understand.
~ Dale Masters, 12,000 hours in gliders, from his book Soaring: Beyond the Basics.
There’s no skill for prospective remembering.
“We really have to have habits—unconscious expert execution of tasks—otherwise we are just novices at everything, forever. It works very nicely most of the time, but there are some situations where we can get into trouble.”Great article by Flightsafety Australia about the aviation work of Dr Key Dismukes, glider instructor and former chief human factors scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center.
“As far as we know there’s no skill for prospective remembering. Our brain’s not wired very well to remember things in the future. It has no alarm clock to remind us to do most things. We remember to eat because we have a kind of alarm clock—being hungry. We remember to go to sleep because there’s an alarm system—getting sleepy. But there is no alarm system that tells us now’s the time to make that telephone call, or set the flaps for take-off.”
Can you use The Force on others?
Interesting article on advanced crew resource management by Erika Armstrong. Can you use The Force on others?