Judgment...Can It Be Regulated?(air pilot training)(Brief Article)

Flying Safety | June 1, 2001| | Copyright

An anonymous quote found in AETC's Handbook 11-1, "Road to Wings," summarizes judgment pretty well: "We should all bear one thing in mind when we talk about a troop who rode one in. He called upon the sum of all his knowledge and made a judgment. He believed in it so strongly that he knowingly bet his life on it. That he was mistaken in that judgment is a tragedy, not stupidity. Every supervisor and contemporary who ever spoke to him had an opportunity to influence his judgment, so a little bit of all of us goes in with every troop we lose."

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