Lessons from flying for engineering leadership
summary
Sixty hours of training leads to one concrete claim: practicing rare failures makes decisions reliable under pressure — including repeated engine‑out drills and simulated spins — and those drills actually work. Crew coordination uses a formal handoff ritual like "my airplane / your airplane" to avoid ambiguity, and crew resource management teaches scripted challenges. The rule order is practical: aviate navigate communicate — fly first, then orient, then tell others — proven by the Hudson ditching.
AI-written summary · about
chapters (6)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:29Flying Lessons
- 5:01trust your instruments
- 7:58crew resource management
- 14:03aviate, navigate, communicate
- 18:24engine out
related talks
01h 01mFly the Enterprise: Applying Aviation Lessons to DevOps Teams
50mPilot Critical Decision Making skills
01h 09mPilot Critical Decision Making skills
30mPilot your Project: Avoiding Anti-Patterns While Handling Incidents and Planning
01h 01mSwiss cheese, teamwork and other things we should learn from the aviation industry
25mMayday! Software Lessons From an Aviation Disaster
42mHow to not kill people
01h 02mCritical Decision Making