Listen to your plane.

Former NASA chief astronaut and USAF test pilot Charlie Precourt has a good article in the July edition of EAA’s Sport Aviation magazine. It’s on the normalization of deviance. That’s something we learnt about from studying the Space Shuttle accidents. And something we can apply every time we go flying.

Listen to your plane. Don’t let standards slip. Don’t normalize deviance.

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(Picture is damaged TPS tiles on the Space Shuttle Endeavor, NASA S118-E-06229)

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