After An Accident, a typical question is what did the pilot know and when did he or she know it? Another way of putting it, less respectfully: Was the pilot merely ignorant or just plain stupid? And when something gets balled up, someone usually quotes the immortal words of the prison guard captain to Paul Newman's character in the movie Cool Hand Luke: "What we got here is a failure to communicate." Did the training system fail or did the individual fail to heed? The best instructors have the knack for saying the right thing at the right time and without a lot of embellishment. Too often the sender tries to impress the receiver with their mastery of the topic at hand. Singer/ songwriter Paul Simon wrote in his hit Kodachrome: "When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all." You may agree.
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