🇫🇷 Today is the 14th of July — la Fête Nationale.
Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité. I have spent my working life in a place that runs on exactly those three words — and I had never noticed until this morning.
Teamwork
How to "Hand Off" Anything in 30 Seconds
A dropped ball is almost never a skill failure — it's a handoff that never happened. The 30-second briefing pilots use: status, outstanding, threats.
Speak Up Before It's Too Late: The Cockpit's 4-Step Ladder
Watching a bad call unfold and saying nothing? Pilots use PACE — Probe, Alert, Challenge, Emergency — to speak up before it's too late.
For Anyone Who Works From Home: The Focus Rule Pilots Use Below 10,000 Feet
Four minutes in, a ping, and your focus is gone. Pilots run a 'sterile cockpit' below 10,000 feet — no talk that isn't flying the plane.
The Magic of SOPs, or How 2 Strangers Fly 305 Lives Across the World
Two pilots who've never met fly 305 people across the world before breakfast. They don't trust each other — they trust the procedure. That's the system.