Michelle Huntington
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And look, when I was flying, it's definitely that case.
And it took me a little while.
You know, you've got to make the decision.
So when the flight deck door closed, the cockpit door closed, I had to just take on that role of the front two seats were my office.
I couldn't really think about the 200 people behind me.
Because if I did, my decision making would become clouded because I'm thinking of all of those lovely people behind me.
Whereas I had to really turn into a robot and think about just myself and the person sitting next to me.
And by default, the people behind me would arrive safely as well.
But it was, you know, if you've got one person who's having a heart attack on board and
The human in me would do anything I could to save that person, but the pilot in me has to consider the other 186 people with that person and look at the safest option for the group rather than that one person.
And it's almost the same when you are making decisions, especially if emotions are heightened.
You really need to practice.
And that's where doing like we do in a simulator, gamification, gaming it out, practicing the, you know, when you're sitting at home comfortably or in the office comfortably, going through scenarios of worst case and how you would actually make a decision.
And it's putting in that little bit of work.
Fantastic.
There's, yes, quite a few.
And it is, when I was learning to fly, I saw other more experienced pilots and it just, the aircraft seemed to be an extension of their body.
They just had done the hours where they could react on instinct, like you said.
And I got to that stage where it was, was it 10,000 hours to become a master of something?
And it's where, yeah,