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Checklists and Callouts: Keep It Simple, Avoid Distraction, Prevent Ineptitude

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The first three decades of powered flight produced an explosive growth in the capabilities and complexities of aircraft. This became all too apparent on the afternoon of Oct. 30, 1935, when Maj. Ployer Hill, chief of the U.S. Army Air Corp’s flying branch, belted into the left seat of the Boeing...
Fred George

Fred formerly was senior editor and chief pilot with Business & Commercial Aviation and Aviation Week's chief aircraft evaluation pilot. He has flown left seat in virtually every turbine-powered business jet produced in the past three decades.

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