Strategy 1: Divide attention between the panel and the environment, keep turns “normal.”

by Paul Bertorelli

With few exceptions, the last thing you want to hear in a cockpit is this: “Hey, watch this.” Yet sometimes there’s a thing or two to learn when someone says it.

Five years ago, a Mooney sales person was giving me a demo ride in an oddball airplane called the Predator. It was a prototype built as a military trainer and had side-by-side seating, center sticks and a sliding canopy; very high testosterone. …