Rolling the Dice With the Bernoulli Brothers
Rolling dice with the Bernoulli Brothers … “Decisions are the choices we make when the outcome is uncertain.” Risk is
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Opinion
Has Pornography Taught Us All to Live Track Up?
It occurs to me that pornography is the obverse of checklists. Everyone talks about checklists, but no one uses them. Everyone uses pornography but no one talks about it. But that’s a sidebar. I have been thinking about pornography lately. Really about how culture affects the way we live and even how we fly.
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Wisdom Where You Find It
You never thought it would happen to you. Now nothing makes sense. You have a plan. But it’s somewhere in the red-tabbed section of your POH. You have just been punched in the proverbial mouth. I don’t know if you have ever been punched in the mouth. It’s shocking. It hurts. It makes you angry. It makes you afraid. Anger and fear are not conducive to clear thinking.
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The Airplane Doesn’t Care
This is why I love flying. There’s never been another person or thing in my life that has demanded such truthful culpability from me. I have a lot of problems that are not my fault. And I have plenty problems that are. But when I show up to fly, I know that the airplane doesn’t care about any of them.
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We All Come From Away
This morning I did a quick internet search. The subject was camaraderie among pilots. I found myself, after the usual
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