When I fist started flying, keeping track of the overwhelming amounts of information about the flight condition of the airplane and the greater environment was hard. Without an instructor pilot and/or plenty of time in the simulator, a new pilot will crash. Period.
After a thousand hours flying, a person gets pretty good at knowing what's going on in the cockpit, outside the cockpit, on the radio, in the airspace, and in the battle space. What used to take intense concentration to interpret and understand eventually becomes matter of course and instinctive -- a quick glance at the 10 or 15 gauges fits into a well-known pattern, and is instantly registered. Anything out of the ordinary stands out like the a Coco-Puff in your Cheerios.
You always read about how chess masters experience a similar faculty. They can glance at a board, read strengths and weaknesses of each side, and come up with a few quality options on where to go next.
I've been immersed in leadership and management theory, strategic thinking and planning, educational theory and the real-time operation of all of that for many years, with the constant intention to understand, learn and explore. When I see a clear pattern of something emerging, it's not a mystery. The influences, personalities, and potential solutions are loud in my head. Watching others remain oblivious to problems that are so apparent is hard. When they can't see the problems, how can they see the solution?
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