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Article: Using en route alternates: making good continue/don't-continue decisions would be a lot easier if you weren't flying at the time. So, just stop flying.(TRICKS O' THE TRADE)
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- March 1, 2009
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It came out of a conversation with a local examiner about low-time pilots and a classic trap. The day is VFR, but there's a ceiling of 4000 feet along their route. Partway to the destination the clouds are down to 3000 and they are flying lower than planned. Almost at the destination, clouds are down to 2000 and they are scudding it at 1500. Light rain is falling, the sun is setting, a tower flashes by level with the airplane ...
Reading the accident record on Monday morning, it's too easy to see the decision chain as the work of an idiot. (OK, sometimes you see what fellow pilots do and wonder, but I digress.) More often, though, we see a human being who made a ...
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Article: Stanford's Lame Duck Takes Wing; For Interim Coach Tucker and Her ...
The Washington Post;
March 28, 1996 ;
700+ words
...Last April, when Amy Tucker was selected to take over the Stanford women's basketball program from Tara VanDerveer, it was not surprising that she greeted the task with apprehension. VanDerveer had done such an outstanding job coaching the Cardinal -- NCAA championships in 1990 and '92, Final Four
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