Flight plan

If you're piloting an airplane and a bird strike knocks out both of your engines, you don't have a lot of time to think and plan.

You do the best you can, and you hope for a good outcome. You might even have to put her down in the Hudson.

But the possibility of an emergency situation does not obviate the need for good flight plan.

You think carefully about the equipment you have available, your team, the people who are counting on you, flight regulations, headwinds, tailwinds, weather forecasts, fuel consumption — and most of all, where you're going and how you're going to get there.

Surprises will happen along the way. Most plans require some alteration once the journey has begun.

But the possibility of surprises is not a reason to avoid planning. On the contrary, it's a darn good reason to plan even more carefully.

All the best,
A.