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She's inside the airplane. She's relying on her instrumentation. What do you expect her to do, get out and look? As for her speech patterns, she's trying to be
by eropple 9y ago
She's inside the airplane. She's relying on her instrumentation. What do you expect her to do, get out and look?
As for her speech patterns, she's trying to be extremely clear and specific with her speech while dealing with stuff like emergency checklists and keeping the plane aloft. As anyone in a life-or-death crisis should be doing. Speaking precisely and clearly is worth overwhelmingly more than speaking quickly and getting something wrong.
This is perhaps the grossest backseat-driving I've seen on Hacker News and I have seen some gross ones.
- swsieber 9y agoFurthermore, they are supposed to be calm. It's not just a good idea & more effective; it's what they're supposed to do.
- ubernostrum 9y agoAlso, keeping away from unnecessary (and potentially distracting) communication, trusting colleagues, and maintaining clear separation of responsibilities. That's the sort of thing that needs to be drilled into people, and that aviation does a good job with. I always like referencing this incident from a few years ago as an example of that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14742725 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14742725