Group,
This is really what I was trying to say. There is no substitute for
experience. In the beginning of a crisis situation, reactions come
through natural channels, not through the thought process. Experience is
what fuels the natural reactions. After the initial reactions, then
thinking and making decisions about the situation comes into play.
The subconscious mind can be trained to take control in unexpected
events. Sitting in the car and practicing emergency shut down, and
mulling over the procedures to be followed in a spin, etc. can be
helpful and I do not diminish their importance. I'm still convinced that
in a crisis environment, the subconscious controls.
In Louise's event in the airplane, she had time to recall previous
instructions and act on them. That is what we are suppose to be doing
before the spin. I suspect while she was reacting to her training, our
spin was already over.
Realize these comments are from my experience and weak mental processes.
BYW, John, in Redding we are having the luxury of selling, on the open
market, 30% of our electrical generating capacity. Also, I really
expected something more slippery when I went to view your picture.
That's a real TURKEY!
Tom, Redding CA - #216 D/GCC
\"LandSpeed\" Louise Ann Noeth wrote:
>
> John is right, there is no better practice than under power. Sitting
> it he car in the dark makes good sense to familiarize yourself with
> where the controls are located.
>
> Dean Batchelor and Alex Xydias explained that was all well and good,
> but once the car started up everything got a bit scrambled due to the
> adding of the noise component, concentration wasn't as easy. When you
> add the motion component, things get even harder to sort out and the
> noises get VERY loud. When the suspension starts working and the body
> starts rattling, especially for the first time, you think the damn car
> will shake itself apart any second.
>
> This reminded me of the comments that DC# pilots made when they first
> flew the big birds and saw how much the wings flexed on take off.
>
> Jeana Yeager, co-pilot of the Voyager, recounted what went through her
> head as they took off fully loaded for the circumnavigation jaunt in
> 1986 . . . "the slender wings had winglets on the very tips, but we
> were so heavy that as the fuselage began to lift-off the wings flexed
> down and slow but surely ground the winglets right off the tips of the
> wings, as if they were held to a bench grinder. since we were still
> flying and in control, we simply kept going."
>
> They did, of course, all the way around the world in 9 days, non-stop,
> non-refueled.
>
> This is a good example of knowing when not to do anything at all.
>
> Speedy Regards,
>
> "LandSpeed" Louise Ann Noeth
>
> LandSpeed Productions
> Telling stories with words and pictures
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