• Dozzi92@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    One of my big takeaways from the Marines (of which there are many) was never do anything without a buddy. There are certainly jobs that are for one person, but a pilot definitely ain’t that.

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      2 days ago

      I don’t have your experience but I have watched a lot of airplane accident/near accident videos on YouTube, so I’m the worst kind of non-expert, and even I can see that having a pilot flying and another pilot monitoring is absolutely essential. It helps prevent either pilot getting overloaded with work and going to pieces, it provides company and a sanity check on every decision and flip of a switch, and there’s no fix for a pilot being incapacitated through sudden illness except having another person there to take over. I wouldn’t want to fly on a plane driven by a single lonely and stressed pilot, and I doubt many pilots would want to be doing long-haul flights all alone every day.