Remember back when you were learning how to drive? At the beginning, it was probably kind of confusing, especially if you were trying to learn on a stick shift. How fast do I let the clutch out? How can I figure out where to put my foot when I’m not looking down? How do I drive …
Most fields of endeavor have tricks of the trade or rules of thumb that help practitioners take care of business more easily. For example, one trick to parallel-parking a normal car in countries where we drive on the right side of the road is to wait to turn the steering wheel hard right until you, …
Unlike actually flying an airplane, virtually all of us have been passengers in one. If we’re in an airliner, we watch the flight attendants move around the cabin and act predictably. We’ll hear cabin announcements made by the cockpit crew and, if we’re extremely lucky, we will even be able to hear the announcement well …