There's a feature of many aircraft intercoms that's not commonly
used, but which has a great role to play in good single-pilot
cockpit management. That feature is "pilot isolation".
"It was what he was supposed to do, what he was trained to do,
what he had the temperament to do. He didn't feel particularly
heroic."
Source: Kenneth Taylor, Jr., speaking of his
father's service on the morning of December 7, 1941 during the
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Kenneth Sr. passed away last week
at the age of 86.
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