“I got good at juggling by juggling a lot. I got good at being a clown by, as a kid, coming home one day and discovering my dad’s dead body.”
A complex procedure must be flown while making radio calls, changing the speed and configuration of the airplane, and maintaining assigned altitudes, all while flying by reference to instruments. When the sum of these tasks exceeds the pilot's capability to deal with them effectively, they becomes task saturated and unable to perform any one of the tasks proficiently.
The pilot may lose situational awareness, become confused, disoriented, may stammer on the radio, may forget how to fly the approach or what their last clearance was, and this can rapidly develop into an unsafe situation.A well-known mantra in dealing with any unexpected situation in an airplane is to "fly the airplane". This is a reminder that, under all circumstances, maintaining control of the aircraft supersedes all other tasks. Such deferral is no substitute for raw ability to perform multiple tasks, but provides an important lifeline in unexpected circumstances.
One of the reasons why I hate the Labour Party is measly cowardly shit like this: dropping hints about a proposed policy to see if it makes the shit hit the fan, when the policy is one that should have been done thirty years ago and we’re still nowhere near getting it fucking done. How can we be failing as a society so fucking hard that our main opposition party can be hinting at a policy at closing the stable door in order to try and lure in the environmental votes. But we all know that policy promises dont mean shit in the end, you get what you’re given and what you’re given is what Davos wants you to be given. I bet any of you a million pounds that this won’t happen even though it should have happened thirty years ago, was absolutely 100% necessary fifteen years ago, and is now into ‘is a sensible response to our impending doom as part of a wide and varied programme of intense and painful structural change that isn’t being suggested.’. Scraps from the table, mates.
What is it like to do a bike slide into the world’s most painful plant?
I love a rant, and here is Caerdydd’s own dicmortimer once again on the BBC. I don’t agree with everything he says, but its a well researched bit of vitriol and its been a long time since I thought the BBC was worth saving - even though not all of its output is rightwing, enough of it is to make the rest just scraps from the table to keep liberals onside. Do you want to be bought? Is it enough to have Doctor Who and CBBs whilst letting them get away with pushing the overton window to the right and giving equal time to poisonous extreme-right wingers whilst ignoring far greater numbers of people who hold left of centre, deep green, republican ideas, etc.
Did a billionaire exist who died without anyone except the IRS noticing?
2 million British people with Long Covid, but we’ve stopped counting.
Wait, I thought that eggs were expensive because they were more expensive to produce due to the two pandemics… this profit margin would suggest otherwise. Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?
although this is true also of police, soldiers, Conservative party MPs, etc
Tesco boss pretends that he’s not raking it in.
Back when I worked at Peabody, nearly 20 years ago now, when I was still trying to fit into a world that wasn’t made for people like me to be able to function, I was part of a team trying to improve complaints handling, performance, and generally manage the organisation’s transition from friendly local housing association to massive faceless beaureacratic blob. All of the problems mentioned in this article we were working to resolve - and indeed, some of them we had resolved. It’s sad to see that it doesn’t seem to have worked in the long-term.