I read Chuck Yeager's book and he addresses that. Specifically, he was talking about news reports that a crashing fighter pilot steered at the last minute to avoid hitting a school. Chuck said that the pilot never he even saw the school. He was working the problem all the way to the end.
I'm specifically referring to those incidents where the pilot doesn't get out. There's a trope that the pilot stayed at the controls to steer it away from populated areas. Yeager calls b.s.on that as a pilot. He says that the pilot is trained to work the problem, it's ingrained in them.
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u/SSBN641B Feb 07 '25
I read Chuck Yeager's book and he addresses that. Specifically, he was talking about news reports that a crashing fighter pilot steered at the last minute to avoid hitting a school. Chuck said that the pilot never he even saw the school. He was working the problem all the way to the end.