2Chair FlyingThe More You Sweat in Peace, the Less You Bleed in Battle
NOTHING CAN PREPARE you completely for a serious threat at thirty thousand feet. There is little room for error, and your first impulse is to panic. But your training has taught you to dismiss that feeling—your life depends on it. Your eyes and ears switch to full alert. Every sense is heightened. Your mental checklists are double-and triple-checked. Then training and instinct take over. Hopefully, you’ve done the thinking already, because now it’s time to act.
In an F-16, hostile fire, bird strikes, engine failures, and bad weather threaten us every time we take flight. Each has the power to take us down. In business, the threats, though obviously different, are nonetheless ...
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